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by llukas 2590 days ago
In EU on medical leaflets risk for various side effects of drug is in form 1 in 10^N cases where N varies.

US leaflets contain useless word descriptions.

Hint: After reading EU style leaflet you know 1 in 10000 rate is very high for nasty side effect. Rare is something like 1 in 1000000

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Hey, I didn't make that number up - Confusion did. I just used his/her number to show that his/her conclusions didn't yet follow.