The psychiatrist was the subject of many conversations, both among patients and among employees.
This Friday, December 20 in the evening, the Magdeburg Christmas market in Germany was the target of a ram car attack. The vehicle traveled nearly 400 meters down the aisles, mowing down numerous people. The current toll shows 5 dead and some 200 injured, some of whom are in serious condition.
The suspect, Taleb al-Abdulmohsenand psychiatrist 50-year-old Saudi man was taken into custody. But, three days after this attack, numerous testimonies come questioning the man's skills as a doctor. He, who had worked in the Bernburg prison center (Germany) since March 2020, was not such a good doctor according to some of his patients and work colleagues. He managed three therapy departments as a specialist in psychiatry as well as psychotherapy.
The German newspaper Mitteldeutsche Zeitung also reports that some of the employees were also starting to have doubts, even calling him “Dr. Google”. The doctor searched this search engine very often “before each diagnosis was made”, an employee told the newspaper. It was also said that the man avoided contact with his work colleagues, almost never having a conversation with anyone. Some employees also report that he behaved disrespectfully towards his female colleagues and that he very often responded aggressively.
A charlatan?
Some patients even “refused to be treated by him” because Taleb al-Abdulmohsen could not master the German language even though he had been living in the country since 2006.
“When I had a thrombosis, he didn't know what it was supposed to be. He had to look it up on the computer. Giving injections wasn't his strong point either. When he gave me the corona injection, he pricked his finger and during group therapy he explained to us what tricks we could use to manipulate the slot machines,” reports Burkhard M. to the German newspaper Bild. A patient of the psychiatrist since 2020, he was convicted of drug offenses as well as battery in 2018.
When people addicted to alcohol came to the doctor for advice, he replied “alcohol is good, honey is bad.” One of his colleagues, also a psychiatrist, added that he “showed us films about the bad consequences, but he said it would be good if Arabs drank alcohol.”
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen also allegedly diagnosed a false cancer. According to the newspaper Badische Neueste Nachrichten, the facts were as follows: two of his colleagues had quickly noticed a white rash on the tongue of a patient. They identified yeast but “we were not allowed to rinse our mouths without the advice of a doctor,” explains the employee. Without wasting time, the psychiatrist then searched the Internet and finally announced “cancer of the tongue and esophagus” even though he had not carried out any examination on the patient.
The patient then filed a complaint against the doctor for this false diagnosis.
The first anti-doping test carried out on the suspect just after the attack was positive, gradually confirming the signs of drug addiction suspected when he was active.