• VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    It’s insane seeing American ads where they tell you they have a new pill and follow it with a list of genuinely horrific possibilities ‘may make your spleen gain it’s own sentience, may invade Poland, stop taking if your penis swells to 80x its normal size and weaps tears of flaming blood…’

    Are Americans so used to it that they just tune it all out like with the California cancer warnings? I feel like I could never get used to that and I’d probably end up a paranoid doctor avoiding loon with warnings about big pharma written all over my car.

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I don’t know who those commercials are even for. It’s not like you can walk into a pharmacy and get whatever you want. A doctor still has to prescribe it to you and hopefully they’re not letting patients decide what to prescribe.