The physician’s role in eradicating the social media epidemic

Physicians Practice August 8, 2025
Neil Baum, MD, Keith A. Reynolds

Physicians address the urgent need to combat social media’s harmful effects on teens, advocating for proactive discussions with patients and parents.

The health care profession has done an admirable job controlling infectious epidemics, including AIDS, and creating vaccines for COVID-19 in a record six months. Now, we need to pivot to social media epidemics, since social media can be as dangerous as infectious epidemics. The time has arrived for physicians to take an active role in recognizing the dangers of social media and having discussions with young patients and their parents about the impact of social media on the growth and development of children. This blog will review the evidence of the dangers of social media on teenagers and what...

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