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Thomas Rau, a well-known face in biomedicine, left the Paracelsus Clinic in Niederteufen shortly thereafter in November 2020. The 70-year-old doctor now practices at his newly founded spa center in Schwellbrunn.
Rau brought employees of the Paracelsus Clinic
With this step, the man from Teufen is fulfilling a lifelong dream: “Actually, I haven’t had to practice for a long time. But that is an absolute passion for me, it is my life. “A part of the staff of the new Schwellbrunn spa center consists of former employees of the Paracelsus clinic. The new” Biomed Center Sonnenberg “is currently being rebuilt. One day there will be space for the surgeries of three doctors, a hotel and a restaurant in the house.The first patients are already in treatment.
Clinic kitchen à la Tibits
The vegetarian restaurant chain Tibits will look after the physical well-being of patients in the future, as Rau reveals. He is looking forward to collaboration between his team and the vegetable experts, says Rau, because: “This has never happened before. This is a first. “Upon request, Tibits co-founder Reto Frei confirmed the collaboration with Rau and his team:” We were asked and we found the project exciting. We want to combine health and pleasure. “
Non-residents can also stop at Kurhaus-Tibits in Schwellbrunn, but only from the end of this year. At the moment, the restaurant will only be reserved for patients.
Criticisms of alternative medicine
At the “Biomed Center Sonnenberg”, Rau and his team want to make biological medicine (a mixture of alternative and conventional medicine) available to a local and international clientele. Biomedicine is supposed to treat people based on causes, not symptoms, and for example completely dispenses with chemistry. Even with cancer.
Practices of this type are not without controversy. “Many alternative treatments are harmless. But sadly, practitioners are not always harmless. These people don’t recognize their own limits, ”says Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of alternative medicine in Britain.
Popular doctor, even among celebrities
Rau has been practicing at the Paracelsus Clinic in Lustmühle as a medical director and partner since the early 1990s. The private clinic flourished under his leadership. In addition to the local population, he also treated many celebrities. For example, Meryl Streep or one of the children of Hollywood star Robert De Niro have been treated by Rau. Actually, you shouldn’t be talking about it because of the doctor’s secret. In this case, celebrities would have allowed it, he says.
In 2018, the employment relationship between Rau and the Paracelso Clinic was terminated for the first time. A small training clinic in Teufen, which Rau also ran in parallel, was later invaded by patients, who are said to have stayed away from their former employer. In 2019 Rau was hired again, now he’s gone again. But definitely this time, as stated by the doctor and entrepreneur in the interview. “Yes,” the 70-year-old man succinctly answers when asked if he rules out returning to the Paracelsus Clinic.
The rumor is boiling
Meanwhile, there are rumors about this Paracelsus clinic. According to information available to FM1Today, the clinic’s management put a new contract with lower salaries in front of certain employees in the summer of 2020 due to the corona pandemic. If they didn’t sign, they had to go.
According to former employees, who do not want to be named, there were also layoffs of doctors and managers who did not want to accept the pay cuts and therefore refused to sign the new contract. They report incapacity in management and lack of coordination in the short-term work area due to the corona pandemic. Furthermore, Lustmühle’s private clinic is said to be on the brink of financial collapse. The CEO is also said to have been fired.
Asked about this, Rau confirms the financial difficulties of his former employer: “That’s right. However, I do not want to comment on the details. ”
Death and raids
It is not the first time that the Paracelsus Clinic has made the headlines. A sensational case was that of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. The son of the Pakistani prince was treated for cancer in 2002 in Lustmühle. After the former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees received several injections into his sternum, he complained of pain at the injection site and fever. Nine months later, Sadruddin Aga Khan died of an infection in Boston at the age of 70.
The prince’s family blamed Thomas Rau for his death, which led to years of legal battle. The case was prohibited by law.
In 2014, the Paracelso Clinic was targeted by the authorities because the then president of the Board of Directors was suspected of illegal drug trafficking. At the request of the Federal Office of Public Health and the Swiss Medical Agency for Therapeutic Products, raids were carried out in several Swiss cantons. Rau was also involved in the case, but the suspicion was not confirmed.
The Paracelsus Clinic is silent
Since 2016, the clinic has been largely owned by the Chinese multinational Huapont Pharmaceuticals. According to rumors, the clinic should have been completely turned upside down as of this point.
If you call the clinic, you land directly on the answering machine: “Due to the worsening Covid-19 situation, we have decided to reduce clinic operations to a minimum in January and February. We will be happy to be there for you again from March. “The latest newsletter on the clinic website was dated May 2020. All contact inquiries from FM1Today, by email or phone, went unanswered.
