Any mention of supernatural magic and similar fairytales is totally inappropriate and irrelevant in a clinical setting, unless it is something the patient wishes to discuss. This much should be obvious to anyone with even the bare minimum number of braincells. If that doctor had danced and chanted his way around the room rattling a bagful of bones and feathers, he would have achieved the same results and even moderate xtians, I suspect, would be baying for his blood.
Sorry to keep harping on about my experiences again, but something of a similar nature happened to me during counselling sessions sometime last year. First, a little background is required. To be accurate, it was a session of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which was described to me as "counselling on the cheap". The 'counsellor' had already expressed to me her distrust of conventional medicine, which set off the "yellow alert; shields up" flag in my head. It was when she was lecturing me on fatalism and how everyone has their time to die that I decided that enough was enough. I politely bade her farewell at the session's end and never returned.
I think the point I'm trying to make is that in a clinical setting, the patient is - must be - the focus of the session. The personal opinions of the doctor or whoever it might be is wholly irrelevant. The doctor in this particular case, if the story is an accurate portrayal of events, deserves everything he gets.
Sorry to keep harping on about my experiences again, but something of a similar nature happened to me during counselling sessions sometime last year. First, a little background is required. To be accurate, it was a session of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which was described to me as "counselling on the cheap". The 'counsellor' had already expressed to me her distrust of conventional medicine, which set off the "yellow alert; shields up" flag in my head. It was when she was lecturing me on fatalism and how everyone has their time to die that I decided that enough was enough. I politely bade her farewell at the session's end and never returned.
I think the point I'm trying to make is that in a clinical setting, the patient is - must be - the focus of the session. The personal opinions of the doctor or whoever it might be is wholly irrelevant. The doctor in this particular case, if the story is an accurate portrayal of events, deserves everything he gets.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
