[NewsyHacker]

The shock you felt is a bit like the shock many foreigners feel when visiting the US, and seeing a consistent flow of television commercials with “Ask your doctor about X.” (Direct marketing of prescription drugs is banned in most of the developed world.)

[Whoppertime]

But hey it makes people from New Zealand feel right at home

[seanp2k2]

I also just don't understand how it's profitable to run those ads in the US, given how niche some of the conditions are...like I'm pretty sure that if you have cancer, you're going to be asking your doctor about a lot of things anyway. What's the point of advertising cancer / lupus / drugs that extremely specific conditions that <0.1% of the US population have?

[peyton]

The math is such that you basically need to reach _every_ patient or you’re fucked.

[methou]

And also gambling and personal loan ads, these are so wild.