Wolfgang Böcker has already operated on several seriously wounded Ukrainian fighters. How the victims are doing, why he, as a surgeon, must not become too emotional – and why medicine must remain apolitical.
Interviewed by
Nicole Graner
Since the start of the Ukraine war, the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) has repeatedly brought injured people to Germany for treatment – including severely wounded Ukrainian soldiers. The Munich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) hospital also cared for young war victims. Wolfgang Böcker, director of the Musculoskeletal University Center and spokesman for the local trauma network, about this work.