Doctor prescribes jesus in UK.

[5thHorseman]

Fundy quack comes unstuck.

[Anomalocaris]

I proscribe nails in the wrists and spear to the side for the doctor.

[The Grand Nudger]

[bozo]

Daffy Doc.

[Faith No More]

Totally out of bounds. When I was in a psych. hospital for depression and a doctor pushed Christianity on me I probably would have exploded. Doctors should never push one religion on a depressed person. The closest they can go is stating the patient might get some benefit by studying different religions. Pushing Christianity in that type of setting is not only extremely offensive, but most likely illegal too.

Besides, in those places there is always at least one patient in there with you that tries to get you to turn your life over to god. The jokes on them though, because I never turned to god and was able to keep my depression 90% under control, which is more than anyone in my situation could hope for.

Sorry, that was a bit of a rant. It frustrates me when I hear doctors telling depressed people stupid things, because I had to deal with it for most of my adult life. This shit just fucking PISSES ME OFF!

[Rev. Rye]

You know, I can't count all the times I've read a Chick Tract and seen Doctors coming up and saving people out of nowhere.

Here's one of the most blatant examples:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1034/1034_01.asp

P.S. Woo Hoo! 800th Post!

[Minimalist]

Dr. Douchebag should be fired.

[Cyberman]

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.