The salient word left out of this statement is Physician.
I doubt he chose the man for his religious views, but rather his training skill and success as a physician.
I find no hypocrisy here.
Me either. There are many athiest physicians, many agnostic, many Christian (and other religious) physicians.
The only one I would choose NOT to go to is one who performs frequent, late term aborions. And, if my life were in serious danger, I’d even accept their help.
Pretty soon we won’t have ANY doctors, if O-care doesn’t get stopped !
The hypocrisy is that he talks about how religion is for fools, denies science, and poisons everything...yet when his life is on he line he is going to not just a Christian doctor but an evangelical one.
I understand the point that he chose him for being a doctor and not for being a Christian. The point you and others are missing is that his choice shows his contention that religion is for the uneducated masses is BS. At least when your life is on the line and you are not promoting a book.
Hopefully he will be saved in the way that matters.
Hitchens said religion "poisons everything". "Everything" includes physicians and medicine.