Hartmut Wewetzer
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Hartmut Wewetzer

Hartmut Wewetzer, MD, born in 1961, is a physician and journalist. He was head of the science department at the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel for many years and has received numerous awards for his work, including the Georg-von-Holtzbrinck-Preis for Science Journalism and the Journalism Prize of the German Society of Cardiology. Today he is a research fellow at a federal institute in Berlin. To balance his body and mind, he jogs around a lake in Brandenburg and attends concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic.
Hartmut Wewetzer, MD, born in 1961, is a physician and journalist. He was head of the science department at the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel for many years and has received numerous awards for his work, including the Georg-von-Holtzbrinck-Preis for Science Journalism and the Journalism Prize of the German Society of Cardiology. Today he is a research fellow at a federal institute in Berlin. To balance his body and mind, he jogs around a lake in Brandenburg and attends concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic.

PUBLICATIONS

Survived
Year of Publication: 2023
Hartmut WewetzerYear of Publication: 2023

Some diagnoses are devastating; they make people feel helpless and terrified. Patients are left questioning what is happening to them and often feel like they have to find answers for themselves.

When he is in his early fifties, doctor and journalist Hartmut Wewetzer is unexpectedly diagnosed with stomach cancer. His life is literally on a knife edge. His life, his family, his career...