The NHS can try and discipline me, but I’m going to carry on sharing my faith at work
By 
Dr Richard Scott2024-03-21T14:32:00
Dr Richard Scott “overstepped the boundaries” by praying with a patient, according to a tribunal. It isn’t the first time the Christian GP has faced censure, yet he is determined to continue sharing his faith at work. He explains why
The heavy envelope filling my letterbox in 2010 was no love letter. A troubled young man had stormed out of my GP consultation two months earlier. Complaining to my professional governing body, the General Medical Council (GMC) that I’d only talked to him about Jesus, he disregarded the other, lengthier aspects of our discussion. Taking him at his word, a GMC Fitness to Practice case changed my life in an instant. On my knees I sought help from our God, to whom this came as no surprise.
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