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Self-doubt<br />
I didn’t sleep well on the 4 th April. My mind was buzzing with everything that needed doing<br />
and within such a short space of time. I had serious self-doubts, not least after I had promised<br />
several people the website could be done and in a short time frame and that it would have<br />
immense value. The truth is, by midnight, I wasn’t sure it would be achievable and especially<br />
when more and more parts of the world were being locked down - which would make website<br />
creation increasingly more difficult as time progressed. Anyway, I got up on Sunday morning<br />
and together with Ken we got on with it together with a brilliant and committed team that<br />
evolved around us.<br />
Epilogue<br />
Not one single person refused to help us when they were approached for help. All completed<br />
their contributions in amazingly short timeframes. If I was to single out one set of<br />
contributors, it would be the Italians. At the time of creating the website Italy was in the grip<br />
of the pandemic and was suffering immensely. However, despite this, the Italian contributors<br />
turned around their website contributions within a single weekend. New artwork was<br />
completed by a sheep farmer from the north of England (a close friend of mine) – and he<br />
learnt a lot of anatomy and pathology and particularly chest radiography during the website<br />
development! New narrated instructional videos were created to demonstrate a range of<br />
important techniques that needed understanding or performing as part of the imaging<br />
process. Many chest radiographs were collated to demonstrate image appearances of <strong>COVID</strong>-<br />
<strong>19</strong>. Many more areas of content were produced too. Ken and I peer-reviewed and edited all<br />
content prior to it being included into the <strong>ISRRT</strong> eLearning platform and into the eLfH<br />
platform. The website went live within a few weeks of me initially proposing the idea – which<br />
is truly amazing.<br />
By mid-2021, the chest x-ray website had been used in 157 countries worldwide and<br />
comments from senior international leaders in our profession started to indicate the<br />
website’s value in saving lives as well as the time saved in helping to retrain and deploy staff<br />
into practical roles needed for chest imaging. In the early summer of 2021, the website<br />
together with the University of Salford’s contribution was nominated for the highly<br />
prestigious Times (London) Higher Education Award; 600 nominations were received for this<br />
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