Trauma Doctor Criticizes Toronto Mayor for Reading While Driving

The director of one of Toronto’s largest trauma centers is speaking out against Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s recent confession that he was “probably” reading while driving.

“We expect our chief executive to act as a role model,” says St. Michael’s Hospital Trauma Director Avery Nathens, MD, PhD, MPH. He made the comment just one day after a passenger in a passing vehicle took a photo of the mayor in which he appeared to be reading while driving on the busy Gardiner Expressway. Ford later defended the practice by saying that he is a “busy man.”

In response to Ford’s admission, Nathens invited the mayor to visit the hospital’s emergency room to see first-hand the harm that can be caused by distracted. For more information, click here to read the full article.