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Interphysician Weight Bias in the House of Medicine

By Ken Milne, MD | on November 23, 2021 | 0 Comment
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Ken Milne, MD

Ken Milne, MD, is chief of emergency medicine and chief of staff at South Huron Hospital, Ontario, Canada. He is on the Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine faculty and is creator of the knowledge translation project the Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine.

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