TV in America is strange… there are so many more ad beaks, and the commercials for medicinces - even laxatives and weight loss medicines like generic acomplia - have all these discalaimers about side effects and the ingredients. The person narrating or in the commercial will be all upbeat and nonchalant while telling people all these worst-case scenarios - but the med is awesome, so get it anyway!!

The ads in magazines are full-page, and on the back is an entire page of tiny, tiny fine print with the full medical details and more disclaimers, like on the leaflet you’d get in the box if you got the prescription at home. I wonder why they do this? Because they’ll get sued otherwise, or something, if someone claims they weren’t warned about a certain side-effect? It’s all very strange… But hey, better to be warned!