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Career Exploration Experience focuses on health and safety

PRESS PHOTOS BY C. RICHARD CHARTRAND St. Thomas More School held a Career Exploration Experience recently, inviting Lehigh Valley Health Network and other business professionals to set up stations in the gym focusing on health and safety.
The choking table explains the Heimlich maneuver and other choking remedies.
Students are urged to use stethoscopes and listen to their own hearts or a friend's heart. Alisa Ho listens to the heart of Cameron Johnson.
A display on CPR and other life saving tools is prominent at the Career Exploration Experience at St. Thomas More School. Brady McKenzie performs CPR with Jean Bluske assisting.
LEFT: At the eye station, the presenter is actually dissecting an old dried animal eye.
At the respiratory system table, students look in a microscope and see what a healthy lung looks like compared to a lung from a deceased person with emphysema or from smoking.
ABOVE: This table explains the brain and nervous system.
BELOW: An Olympus Optical representative demonstrates the miniature cameras used to look inside the body, possibly saving patients from being cut open.
A section is dedicated to animal health by the East Penn Animal Hospital with a very friendly Samoyed Russian sheepdog.
Dr. Arthur Obenradel, DVM, explains how to care for your pets.