Doctor Franz

Doctor Franz, the director of Santa María de las Nieves Psychiatric Clinic, enters the investigation through a series of emails that turn professional concern into an increasingly heated campaign against Doctor Sarasola. His messages raise questions about Sarasola’s access to confidential information, but the accusations remain unproven, and Franz’s escalating tone complicates the weight of his claims.

Position and correspondence

Doctor Franz’s emails reach Amaia as part of the investigation surrounding her mother and the clinic. One message, described as an expanded version of an earlier one, singles out what Franz regards as a troubling discrepancy: Doctor Sarasola appears to know details of the mother’s case, treatment, and behavior, even though those matters are protected by medical confidentiality and Sarasola has never treated her. Franz says he has checked this point. The email presents the information as grounds for further investigation, not as proof of wrongdoing.

Accusations against Doctor Sarasola

In later correspondence, Franz accuses Doctor Sarasola of concealing something and being untrustworthy, while acknowledging that he has no evidence. He also sends reports from other doctors at the clinic and articles from medical journals to support his conviction that the patient could not have appeared normal without treatment. Amaia skims the material, finding its medical terminology exhausting; the documents show the basis for Franz’s argument, but do not establish that his suspicions about Sarasola are true.

Escalation and narrative role

The tone of Franz’s messages grows more hysterical. In one email he laments the fate of his clinic, moving from pleading to what Amaia perceives as whining; in a later message he threatens to take action. Against this escalation, his earlier admission that he lacks proof remains important: the story offers both a potentially significant question about confidential medical knowledge and a sender whose increasingly agitated manner makes his allegations difficult to treat as settled fact. Franz therefore functions as a source of investigative leads and pressure, rather than as a confirmed exposer of Sarasola’s conduct.