"You can only speak for yourself, Rosie. I'm not asking you to pray if it doesn't make sense to you. I wouldn't ask someone else not to pray if it did make sense to them. In either case, it wouldn't be my business to do that."

Well, precisely.
And neither is it the business of someone hired to provide an essential non-spiritual service, to dabble in unsolicited spiritual ministering.
And ask those they are paid to provide that service to, to pray with them.

I'm not vociferously defending treatments available in the modern day, I think there is - as I said before - a long, long way to go.
But I still think we have also come a long way since the days of "driving out demons".

For what it's worth Little Hawk, I do pray. And as a Gnostic I believe in what works. I also know from personal experience, that spiritual healing can and does work.
But believing what I do about the power of the mind and even spiritual influences, I don't believe in just anyone dabbling in spiritual ministering in quite inaproppriate contexts.

Both my Mother and my Grandmother worked in the caring professions. My grandmother was a senior psychiatric nurse, who was also an extrememely devout Catholic and very serious about her faith.
While my Mother worked as a carer for the disabled and the elderly. And she was also a very good spiritual healer, especially (though not exclusively) with animals, as I can vouch for.

Neither of them blurred the boundaries between their spiritual lives and their work in the caring professions. Both of them kept their personal faiths very much to themselves.
Perhaps I take some of my own feelings on this matter, from their example. Both of them were women who I respect/ed hugely.

I myself even trained as a hands on healer many years ago...
And during the training, we were taught never to impose our unsolicited 'healing' on anyone.