While most people would benefit from additional exercise both physically and mentally, this is out of your scope as an ED doc and you should recognize it. It may seem harmless, but the title of the video is not “How to improve mood naturally,” you went with “How to CURE DEPRESSION”. Cure is a specific word with specific connotations and while depression is used colloquially and broadly, is a specific disease as defined by DSM-5 that very specifically does not include just feeling down.
Not only are you undercutting the difficulties of your patients suffering from ICD coded diseases but you’re also devaluing the work your colleagues in other fields of medicine do.
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Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTi9v8DzR8
Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuYYKWq7txPuft_jsowwUQ
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