Dr Kate Miller shares how a cancer ‘miracle’ cure sucked her in
As a teenager the geriatrician was devastated when a herbal tea failed to heal her father, but the experience has left her with a deep understanding of the allure of snake oil therapies
As a teenager, Melbourne geriatrician Dr Kate Miller fell for a Big Pharma conspiracy theory, wrongly believing a ‘miracle’ tea would save her father from terminal cancer. The tragic experience has left Dr Miller with valuable insight into how to approach people who fall for snake oil treatments. Here’s her story:
I was an angry and disinterested teenager, with parents who had split up when I was four. My Dad had moved overseas when I was 12, and then returned when I was 17 because he had metastatic melanoma.
