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I have read hundreds of near death experiences and I don’t know of any that completely reflected a strict Orthodox Christian worldview. There were usually heresies in there somewhere, most commonly pre-mortal existence, re-incarnation, and the ability to alter your afterlife condition...i.e. get out of Hell. And yes, many NDE’s report the existence of Hell, most notably Howard Storm’s in his book “My Descent into Death.”

At least the Doctor is no longer an Atheist, that is a start.

Have you read about the little boy's experience spoken of in his book, Heaven is for Real? From a little kid's perspective, things he reportedly saw were plausible. Though, we can't really know how much was verbatim and how much was embellished by his minister father who wrote the book. There are several instances in Scripture where people WERE brought back to life from death but we don't have any of their testimony as far as I know. I don't totally deny it CAN happen, just that we should be wary and not easily tricked into believing wholesale what someone says as being THE truth just because they say they saw it. The subconscious mind can do strange things to the conscious mind, that's for sure, but our guard should be up whenever someone purports to being a "prophet" with new revelation or a visionary declaring new truths. It's no different with a person claiming to tell us things they saw on the "other side". Too much room for deception there.