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Article: Safe Driving Education Should Be Part of Routine Teen Physicals, Hopkins Children's Experts Say.
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- March 24, 2009
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Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
BALTIMORE, March 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The "are you driving yet?" talk should become part of every pediatrician's regular physical exam for teenagers, Hopkins Children's experts say.
Pediatrician Letitia Dzirasa, M.D., notes that car accidents kill more 15- to 20-year-olds than any disease, so teenage driving should be considered a risky behavior, in need of as much attention as unprotected sex or underage drinking.
"Pediatricians talk to their teen patients about eating disorders, alcohol, marijuana use," Dzirasa says, "but the one conversation that is not happening often enough is about the ...