(TELEGRAPH) — A Christian family doctor performed an exorcism on a seriously ill patient after promising he could "heal" her without medication, a medical tribunal heard.
GP Dr Thomas O'Brien, 56, persuaded the mother of one to undergo the spiritual procedure at his local Pentecostal church after telling her: "God is your surgeon," it was claimed.
During a four-month period leading to the ceremony, O'Brien is alleged to have subjected the patient who was in great pain after stomach surgery to "religious grooming" in which he said the "devil was having a real go at her" and that she had "devil items" in her house
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