It was during the early hours of a cold February morning when Athalie Smith was airlifted to the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, where she would stay for the next 7½ weeks in one of the province’s only Level 1 trauma centres.
The 16-year-old had been ejected from a car during a single-vehicle crash in Pictou County. She was left with life-threatening injuries including a broken neck, ribs and lumbar, frostbite all over her body, and a bleeding kidney and spleen.
But according to her mother, Krista Fulton Smith, it was thanks to a new pilot program at the hospital that
