As an aside, I’ve been a little surprised at how skittish my doctors have been about sex over the years. For example, a few years ago I had a good deal of trouble catching my breath after a spirited session, so I went in for a physical. When I started telling my doctor what happened (no gory details, just the plain truth like you’re supposed to tell your doctor), he immediately cut me off and said “OK, trouble catching your breath after exercise” and that was that.
A leitmotif of the TV show *House *was that patients always hold back some personal details out of embarrassment which makes it difficult to treat them effectively. I think this difficulty in communication goes both ways, if my experience is any indicator.
I would be really uncomfortable with the situation, and I am a Christian.
If I had shared that I was a believer, and they revealed their own faith and offered, that wouldn’t be a problem, and I have accepted prayer before treatment from people I know and trust to treat my medical needs as well as my spiritual ones. But not out of the blue with no context like that.
For all I know the doctors idea of prayer may be calling on the Old Ones to subsume my soul - and I think I’d rather pass.
Find another doctor - no matter how competent she actually is, she has demonstrated poor judgement or made a massive assumption about Skald based on nothing much, and then compounded the issue later on with a measure of judgement of past behaviour.