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Initech

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Tue Apr 16, 2013, 01:30 PM Apr 2013

Doctor Performs Exorcism On Patient That She Didn't Ask For

A patient has complained that a Midland GP told her to stop taking her medication – and took her to a pentecostal church he was running where she underwent an
EXORCISM instead.

Dr Thomas Gerard O’Brien was working as a locum GP in Staffordshire when he treated the woman, who had been prescribed anti depressant, anti hypertensive and analgesic medication.

The patient, who has not been named, claimed that she stopped taking the medication after Dr O’Brien advised her that “there is another way” and gave her lifts to meetings at a pentecostal church in Stoke on Trent over several weeks.

She claimed that she was advised that “God is her surgeon and God will heal her”.

She said that Dr O’Brien sent her texts and books and pamphlets about the church, which he ran with another person. These included An Occult Checklist – a guide to activities considered to be within the Occult – which had the words ‘Compiled and Written by Tom XXX O’Brien’ inside and a ‘Prayer of Repentance’.

The woman said she was subjected to a four-hour ‘testimony’ where an exorcism was performed on January 19.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/patient-doctor-told-stop-taking-2593218


Someone needs to lose their medical license.
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