BBC2's "Trust Me, I'm a Healer"

In 2007, the BBC ran a series examining the claims of various healers, among them a feature on John of God directed by filmmaker Danny Horan. Mr. Horan followed several British visitors to the Casa, among them a cancer patient and a victim of multiple sclerosis and obtained an interview with JOhn himself. Although the documentary takes a skeptical point of view, I found it to be very even-handed and much more than fair to John of God.

Here is a version of the documentary uploaded to YouTube (the quality is not the best and the sound is a bit out of synch but it is well worth watching):











Why did the hotel owner and John of God advise Ms. Morgan to return to Britain? Why did John refuse to treat her? Could it have been that John assumed that she was beyond any help, certainly beyond any help that he could give her, and refused to take responsibility for something he knew would prove to be a failure? As Miss Morgan's companion observed, it's likely that neither John nor the hotel desire a death on their hands.

At the very least, this incident seems to disprove John's claim that "no one is turned away", which he or his followers state on several websites affiliated with the Casa.