What was it that made you want to be a Medical Physicist?

Question: What was it that made you want to be a Medical Physicist?
- Keywords:
  career,
  medical,
  physicist
Asked by kiwibird to Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
- Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:
  
  The structured (and paid) Masters degree course with pretty much a guarantee of a job at the end of it. Plus the chance to do science in a way that directly helps people.

Question: What was it that made you want to be a Medical Physicist?