Warning Labels for Social Media Are A Terrible Idea.

That is a bad suggestion from a public health professional.

The NY Times featured— yesterday—a lukewarm op-ed by Vikek Murthy, M.D., MBA, the Surgeon General of the United States. My wife,

Carlene MacMillan, MD

is of the opinion that a subscription to The NY Times is the kind of thing you just need to have as an adult. It’s like life insurance or buckling your seat belt. In that august pulication, Dr. Murthy is advocating for panicked responses to the mental health crisis… as public policy:

One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don’t have the luxury to wait for perfect information. You assess the available facts, you use your best judgment, and you act quickly.

As I have previously opined…how to put this delicately? Ok…I’ll go with this is a Bad Idea (Owen Muir, M.D., in “The Mental Health Crisis…Crisis”):

We do not have a mental health crisis.  We have a mental health crisis…crisis.   We have become so panicked by the relentless onslaught of early, preventable death, loss, and sorrow that we cannot address it.…