26TH NATIONAL SELECTION CONFERENCE
FAREWELL ISSUE
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CONTENTS 4
Lübeck Insider Tips
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#MyDoctorStory
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Lübeck Health Habits 1
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CPR ?!
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Yearbook Awards
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How Journalists are seen by...
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Session Statistics
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“Youth”
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Lübeck Health Habits 2
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Interviews
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The medieval small streets around the Museumsquarter St. Annen. The area combines past, present and art. At some points visitors might think that they are not allowed to enter the tiny alleys but squeezing through is totally worth it. The architecture is unique and provides an insight into the world cultural heritage of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Martti loves to stroll through these alleys and let his spirits flow.
The most beautiful building The Lübeck Town Hall is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful town halls in Germany and in Marttis opinion the most beautiful building in Lübeck. Especially the interior design of the in 1230 constructed building is breath taking. The Town Hall is another gem of the great history of the Hansestadt.
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The most interesting building The campus of the school of music Lübeck is another favourite of Martti. The location is a historic district that used to consist of many small houses and buildings. Recently the whole district was reconstructed in order to become the home of the university. It is a pleasure to walk through the hallways or sit down in one of the many courtyards that also host great concerts in summer.
The best place for a beer after midnight On top of the hanseatic Museum the young people of Lübeck gather at night times to enjoy the extraordinary view over the Trave and the Oldtown. It is probably also the most chilled place to have a look at the starry sky while you can enjoy some cold beers and listen to good tunes.
TI’S INSIDER TIPS
Martti Klockeman, the Head-Organiser, happens to be the only Offical that lives in Lübeck.
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What to do on a nice and warm summer day Like every other student Martti tries to get out of the city on warm summer days. Travemünde is only 20 Minutes away by train and it serves well for a swim at the beautiful beach or a stroll at the harbour while enjoying a traditional fishbun. For people who want to travel a little further, the travemünde ferry port offers a variety of ferries to some Scandinavian cities.
What represents Lübeck? There is no city that combines the beauty of hanseatic and middle age architecture with modern, practical design such as Lübeck. It is a place that just creates the feeling of home. Nevertheless, as we are all young people it has to be mentioned that Lübeck is quite cheap to live in and the academic possibilities are diverse. Being a small town the community is very strong and a friendly atmosphere exists between the people.
by Jonas Krohn Photos by Alex Blin 5
#MyDoctorStory Some of us do it more often than others but when we have broken bones, a serious illness or just need a reason to stay at home, doctors come in quite handy...
Going to the doctor is rarely a pleasant experience. Sometimes however, something strange happens.
Weird doctors, disobedient patients, all the right ingredients for a truly special experience! Here are some examples of what session participants have experienced‌
by Jonas Krohn and Frederick Gniffke
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WHAT WAS CPR THAT AGAIN?
by Anna Stibbe, Lena Kreft and Tjalling Fokkema
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First off, check your surroundings to make sure that you will not put yourself in danger while helping anyone. It normally does not mean any good if a person is lifelessly laying on the ground, so before doing anything else: call an ambulance. If you are with other people, command someone else to do so. As soon as you know that you are safe, check if the victim is conscious. In order to check, shake his shoulders, call his name and wait for a response. If this does not work, you can pinch his septum or rub your knuckles over the chest bone to evoke a pain reaction.
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In the unlucky event of unconsciousness, follow the ABC scheme: A = Airway B = Breathing C = Circulation
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First of all, check if the airway is blocked. To do so, open the mouth and overstretch the head. Try to move the jaw forwards for a better view. If the victim is choking, check the airway for vomit. When something is blocking the airway, try to get it out with your fingers or wait for the paramedics to do so. Now for the breathing. Put his head backwards as in the previous step. Now put your ear to the victim’s mouth and fix your glance towards his chest. If you can’t feel a breath on your cheek or can’t see the rising of the chest, the victim surely has stopped breathing.
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As for the last step, you check the blood circulation. You can either check the pulse on the carotid (the artery on your neck) or on the victim’s wrist. Try to grip the wrist like shown in the picture above. Congratulations! Now it’s time to perform CPR, because people who have stopped breathing most likely don’t have a pulse anymore, or will lose it in the very nearby future.
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When you have made sure that the victim is lying on a hard surface, put your hands on the middle of the chest bone. Rhythmically push and put pressure on the heart. While pumping, you should reach for the depth of approximately one third of the victim’s thorax, for most about five centimeters.
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Keep the arms stretched and use the force of your upper body to be able to use the most force. The heart has to refill with blood after a push, so after each pump, release the pressure on the heart again. The frequency of the pumps should be about a 100 beats per minute: exactly the same rhythm as “Staying Alive” by the Bee Gees If there is another person with you, such as Arno in this occasion, he can do the following two breaths while you take a break from the compressions. Overstretch the head again, lift the lower jaw and pinch the nose close. Now, after you have taken a deep breath, bring your mouth down on the victim’s one and blow in the air. Repeat this for the second breath. Check if the chest is rising when the air has reached the lungs.
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If you are two persons or more perform four cycles of CPR (30x chest compression & 2x breaths), and then switch. However, if you are alone, the pumping of blood is more important than the breaths. Try to always keep the time that you are not pumping to a minimum. Overall, the most important thing is that you actually intervene. There is a human’s life at stake after all. Do not be afraid to break ribs, your actions could save lives! 11
NOMINATIONS CLASS OF 2016 Ruben Colindres Best dressed
Anne Gegenmantel Best dancer
Jannis Stoter Loudest
Salma Ismaili Biggest flirt
Lukas Brechtken Always sleeping
Ivo Kellner Funniest
Lorenz Stree Biggest party animal
Arno Secret crush
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HOW JOURNALISTS ARE SEEN BY ... Delegates
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Chairs
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Themselves
by Anna Stibbe, Frederik Gniffke, Rose Cantillon, Tjalling Fokkema, Jonas Krohn 17
SESSION STATISTICS 1: #NameGames
An average session participant has learned 22 new names. 2: #StayHydrated
6.4 cups of water were consumed by a session participant on average. 3: #SweetDreams
The delegates managed to get an average of 6.1 hours of sleep during a mid-session night. 4: #Emergency
In total there were 1.3 hospital visits per delegate over the course of last year. 5: #BreakALeg
A delegate has broken an average of 0.4 bones in their life. 6: #MoveYourBody
The session participants spend a staggering 7.2 hours on doing sports per week per person. 7: #KknowledgeIsPower
Only 28% of all session participants know their own blood type. 8: #Lifesaver
9% of all delegates want to become a doctor!
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YOUTH We stay awake `till there is nothing left of us. Just to see the sunrise. Just to say that we were here. We`ll look at faded polaroids of moments that have gone by too fast.
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Time seems to be flying, will I ever get a grip? Will I ever truly live? “Take us to the youth we never had” That’s what we are afraid we’ll have to say tomorrow days. Could be the part where we give up dreams. Could be the part where you learn to fly. So don’t lose faith in us. We can make this everything we dreamed of. Going places, seeing faces, sleeping over what they say. Go and chase your dreams forever. “Take us back to the youth we never had.” That’s what we are afraid we’ll have to say tomorrow days. So we’ll fight on.
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Cloé Oksenhendler (FR) The Questions: • What motivated you to start a career in the medical/pharmaceutical field? • What would you like to specialise in? • What medical/pharmaceutical breakthrough are you most looking forward to see either in your lifetime or in the far future? • What problems do you see in the medial/pharmaceutical world?
Motivation: First both my parents and grandparents are doctors and it probably influenced me in the way I see them being really happy about their work and having a comfortable life and having so many stories to tell about their studies and patients. Problems: In France, the most problematic thing is how hospitals are dealt with. Basically, people at the head of hospitals are not doctors or scientists or people that are familiar with this domain. They’re directors of big enterprises, who usually have done commercial or political studies and they arrive in hospitals with the idea that they have to deal with products rather than patients. it really diminishes the quality of care and it’s a shame. Breakthrough: I’m really looking forward to miraculous vaccines or treating diseases that are terrible like cancer, AIDS. When we will be able to fight them quickly and properly.
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Lorenz Stree (DE)
Motivation: I think that medicine is one of the few professions where you actually have kind of both, a very scientific approach to the human body, as well as more of a psychological approach on how to deal with human life.
Specialisation: I’ve tried to stay as open as possible as long as possible in my studies because I didn’t want to limit myself too much but I’ve found myself having quite clear tendencies towards the orthopaedic or sports medicine field for quite a while
Problems: The problem that will rise is going to be the demographic change, which is a very prominent topic every time you talk about healthcare, because obviously an aging society with the rise of chronic diseases and cancer will increase the costs for the healthcare system.
Problems you wish to see changed: I think currently we are struggling the most with the discrepancies between the medical world and the politics or the political sphere as it is too slow to react to new scientific evidence and that although we might have the resources in our modern world that we are not offering the best treatments that we could just because the system is malfunctioning. Doctors and all other medical professions that are involved in the system just kind of have to play the game instead of doing what they think would be ideal in many cases so they are bound to follow the rules.
Breakthrough: We have come a long way in psychiatry and there is still so much we don’t know, like possibilities to change the medication and that would be a huge breakthrough.
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Jakob Fölster (DE)
Annie MacConnachie (UK) Specialisation: I’m not sure yet but I have an interest in potentially becoming an army doctor or an emergency care doctor. Problems: As I’m from the UK, there’s a lot happening in the British NHS. There’s been recent junior doctor strikes due to changes in the junior doctor contract trying to impose unsafe working hours so I see at least in the UK problems in funding the NHS and being able to maintain the current work force on a contract that is safe for them and respectful to them as people. Breakthrough: I would certainly like to see a deal of breakthrough in mental health I think that there is a lot of aspects of mental health that still haven’t even been identified or diagnosed and I think we are only now beginning to raise more awareness and more acceptance.
Martti Klockemann (DE) Motivation: I got an insight into this field because my father works as an anaesthetist and I believe being a doctor is one of the most pragmatic professions one could study for” Problems: It’s for sure still an unequal system depending on what insurance you have, how fast you are treated and what kind of treatment you get and what kind of treatment you pay for[…]the system of a hospital is still rather a strict hierarchy as you depend on your boss whether he likes you or he doesn’t. 26
FUTURE MEDICS OF LÜBECK Motivation: Probably the fact that it combines loads of different skills. You need to have a lot of good biological knowledge and understand how lots of different processes about the human body. Specialisation: I’m quite interested in radiology and getting to explore all the medical physics and different imaging techniques. Problems: Well one problem that I see in my country is that politicians often don’t listen to what expert healthcare opinion tells them to do and they do kind of what they think would please the voters. They don’t really show any leadership on a political level in order to bring about change.
Sophie Duffield (UK) Problems: The motivation of the pharmaceutical sector is unfortunately financial their companies are accountable to their shareholders and they have to make a profit and that of course isn’t necessarily aligned with the medical priorities […] there isn’t a financial drive for pharmaceutical companies to invest in the research […] such as tackling HIV in the developing world and tropical diseases.
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Peter McManus (UK)
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE
MEDIA TEAM OF LÜBECK 2016
In Kooperation mit der Vertretung der Europäischen Kommission in Deutschland