. 2014 May;60(5):407-8.

Health information on the Internet: gold mine or minefield?

Affiliations

¹ Master's student at McGill University in Montreal, Que, at the time of writing this article. tabitha.tonsaker@alumni.ubc.ca.
² Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Family Medicine.
³ Fourth-year medical student, both at McGill University.

Tabitha Tonsaker et al. Can Fam Physician. 2014 May.

. 2014 May;60(5):407-8.

¹ Master's student at McGill University in Montreal, Que, at the time of writing this article. tabitha.tonsaker@alumni.ubc.ca.
² Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Family Medicine.
³ Fourth-year medical student, both at McGill University.

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