My doctor asked me to pray.

[abaris]

As nice as they are, I still find it hard to believe that some would suggest that. As if all those years of medical training and experience just isn't "quite" enough, pray... because well, religion!

Well, Carson was a brillant surgeon, but at the same time he's a religious nutter. As for me, not one doctor I ever met, asked me to pray or suggested religion as a possible remedy. The closest I came was when my mother lay on her death bed and the doctor got a bit spiritual. Nothing outspoken, only the suggestion that we still don't know what outside influences reach a dying person in a coma.