Please, Elle Macpherson, don’t tempt cancer patients to ignore science – the reason I’m alive

Opinion I don’t want to pile on Elle, but if I’d ignored the doctors I’d be dead Julia Baird Journalist, broadcaster, historian and authorAccording to the Women’s Weekly, Elle Macpherson approached her breast cancer diagnosis the same way she has lived her life: “on her own terms”. Unconventional. Authentic. Real. She decided not to follow the “ordinary path” (so boring!) and, “eschewing traditional medicine, she instead chose a holistic approach”. Eschewing, hey. The most important thing to note in this …