Thomas Rau (medical doctor)

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Thomas Rau (born April 10, 1950 in Trogen , Switzerland ) is a Swiss doctor .

Life and education

Rau studied human medicine in Bern . At the end of 1976 he completed his studies with the medical state examination. The American state examination followed in 1977 and he did his doctorate in the field of rheumatology . Study visits took him to Spain , France , the USA and Germany . He then worked as a hospital doctor in internal medicine, intensive medicine, general surgery, rheumatology and paediatrics. From 1981 to 1992 he worked in a general practice in the country and on the side in a drug rehabilitation center. He is married to a nurse and nutritionist and has four children.

Paracelsus Clinic Lustmühle

Since 1992 Rau has been the medical director and partner in the private Paracelsus Clinic Lustmühle in Teufen , which was founded in 1960 by the naturopath Walter Winkelmann. When choosing the namesake of the clinic, a myth was used that says that Paracelsus also practiced in the canton of Appenzell during his years of traveling. Rau's work focuses on " alternative cancer therapy". The clinic cites the integration of medical and dental treatment as part of interference field therapy as a unique selling point . Rau put together his treatment concept from numerous components of alternative medicine. These components include fresh cell therapy , homeopathy and complex homeopathy, neural therapy , dietetics and the F.-X.-Mayr cure , isopathy and immunobiology, meridian therapies , dark field microscopy , thermoregulation diagnostics and bioenergetic information therapy . He defined illness as a «loss of regulatory capacity» and its cure as the «restoration of regulatory capacity» (using a «three-pillar concept»).

Free healing activity

As early as 1871, the rural community of the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden had decided by far more to adopt a law that allowed " free healing " for everyone. The constitution of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, in which the Paracelsus Clinic Lustmühle is located, guarantees this “free healing activity” even today (Article 48.6). It also stipulates that “the canton oversees the public and private health care institutions, the health professions and the therapeutic products sector” (Article 48.5). As part of the “free healing activity” and the Federal Medicines Act , the cantonal medicinal product control department regulates the area of ​​drug production and the area of ​​drug dispensing. In addition, the Medicines Control Unit is responsible for testing and approving naturopaths in the canton. The special status of "free healing activity" meant that the canton of Appenzell A.Rh. - with a focus on Herisau and Teufen - became the canton of natural doctors, dentists and natural medicine manufacturers . The best-known Swiss naturopath, Alfred Vogel , next to Pastor Johann Künzle , ran a spa in Teufen from 1937.

The Paracelsus Clinic Lustmühle in Teufen AR also relies on this special cantonal case. When selecting and awarding her therapeutic products, she makes the most of the liberal regulations of the cantonal therapeutic product control office. A qualified pharmacist employed in the clinic is charged with this task . From 2010 to 2011 the German Rudolf Schittenhelm was the clinic's chief pharmacist. He then went to Teufen with the Dr. Schittenhelm Pharma GmbH is self-employed as a manufacturer of «magistral formulations». «Magistral prescriptions» are medical prescriptions for drugs that are made for a specific person.

From 2012 to May 2014, Geneva- based Malaysian Mike Chan was the clinic's majority shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors. In his Geneva-based company, Lab Dom , he specialized in the manufacture of medicines from fresh sheep cells.

At the request of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health and the Swiss Agency for Medicinal Products, Swissmedic , raids were carried out in several Swiss cantons on September 24, 2014 because there was a well-founded suspicion of trading in illegal preparations made from animal cells. In Teufen AR, the Paracelsus Clinic Lustmühle and Dr. Schittenhelm Pharma GmbH , Mike Chan's Lab Dom in Geneva was affected by these raids. No connection was found between the illegal preparations from fresh animal cells and the Paracelsus Clinic Lustmühle . The Paracelsus Clinic Lustmühle distanced itself from the use of such preparations, as well as from Lab Dom and Mike Chan.

The Sadruddin Aga Khan case

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan was diagnosed with cancer ( muicinous, colloidal adenocarcinoma ) in 1981 , the metastases of which in the lungs, sternum and ribs could be kept in check by means of radiation therapy and hormone therapy . In 2001 he came to the Paracelsus Clinic Lustmühle for the first time as an outpatient in order to have his illness treated with alternative medicine . From August 12 to 16, 2002, he received his last treatment there, in which he was given several injections in the area of ​​the sternum. After leaving the clinic, he suffered from injection site pain and a fever. A bacterial infection was diagnosed where he lived in Geneva . He flew to Boston and died there on May 12, 2003 in a clinic as a result of an infection with a bacterium that is part of normal skin colonization.

The family of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan assumed that he had become infected with the deadly germ in the Paracelsus Clinic Lustmühle and filed a complaint against their chief physician Thomas Rau with the Ausserrhoder health department on July 2, 2003 . Years of litigation resulted in administrative and civil actions. The case became statute-barred before a verdict was reached.

Renato L. Galeazzi, former chief physician for general internal medicine at the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital , prepared an expert opinion on the action brought by the community of heirs against chief physician Rau on behalf of the Ausserrhoder health authorities. Galeazzi came to the conclusion that it was not right "to repeatedly break through the protective barrier of the skin and make subcutaneous injections in the area of ​​the body weakened by radiation therapy." With up to 90% probability, the injections are responsible for the initial infection. According to Galeazzi, there actually seems to be out of the question that the patient died as a result of this severe infection in the area of ​​the sternum and thorax. However, with a consistent, possibly even intravenous continuation of the antibiotic therapy started in Geneva, the infection could have been kept in check or even cured with a probability of 50%.

Chinese investors

In the summer of 2016, the Chinese pharmaceutical and healthcare billionaire Huapont took over 70% of the Paracelsus Clinic Lustmühle .

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Bänziger. “The spirit spiritually, wa he will” Marginalia on Paracelsus (1493-1541) stay in St. Gallen and Appenzell . In: Tages-Anzeiger , July 16, 1988, p. 6
  2. ^ Office for Health. Alternative practitioners
  3. ↑ Constitution of the Canton of Appenzell A.Rh., as of June 1st, 2015 (digital version )
  4. ↑ Cantonal agency for therapeutic products control
  5. ↑ Hans Koller. The free healing activity in Appenzell A.Rh. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher, Volume 98 (1970), pp. 3–54 (digitized version )
  6. ↑ Notker Kessler. The free healing activity in the Health Act of the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . (Zurich Medical History Treatises 146), Juris, Zurich 1981
  7. ↑ Schittenhelm Pharma Philosophy 2018
  8. ^ SRF Rundschau, March 25, 2015 Fresh cells ...
  9. ^ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: Mike Chan's long shadow . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on May 2, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Philippe Reichen: Prince family sues clinic. In: Tagblatt Ostschweiz Appenzellerland , October 10, 2009.
  11. ↑ Philippe Reichen: Expert opinion incriminates chief physician Rau. ( Memento from April 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Tagblatt Ostschweiz, October 19, 2009.
  12. ↑ Handelszeitung.Ch 02.12.2015: Takeover. Chinese reach for Paracelsus Clinic.
  13. ↑ Odilia Hiller and Andri Rostetter. The naturopath and the Chinese. Tagblatt Ostschweiz, March 26, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Rau, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and specialist book author
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Trogen AR , Switzerland