They should have taken him to a Catholic Priest. The exorcism still would have failed, but at least the patient would have survived.
Thanks for that warning! I might have followed that link and gotten yet another horror thought/image stuck in my mind. I really, really don't want to know any details.
"Religious Belief Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism":
Caldwell-Harris et al 2011.
Mostly as one would expect, although I am troubled that the second survey did not find any difference in agnostics, only the other categories.
See also: "How to be deader than dead".