For British audiences, Oprah Winfrey Bomb special The royal family was also a risk on the royal pharmaceutical industry.
Those in England who streamed Sunday’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were shocked to see advertisements for prescription drugs, including SkyRizie, Kiskali and Jordan. Advertising prescription drugs are banned in the United Kingdom – and most of the world, other then America and New Zealand.
Author Ayesha A. Siddiqui compiled the most shocking responses in a Twitter thread. Title “British people reacting to US pharmaceutical advertisements during Hermi / Meghan interviews.”
“If these are drug advertisements, it’s not like the NHS is not what I would never want to experience,” Tweeted Referring to Britain’s National Health Service, one person panicked.
“No … how are the side effects of the drug in US commercials more deadly than the one they are treating ???” wrote one more.
“These medical advertisements and side effects though. American healthcare is really a business,” Noted
A third.
Other critics called the ads “unrealistic” and “uneducated” and said they made them feel as if they were “in some postwar world.”
Many people expressed renewed gratitude for their country’s national health system.
Siddiqui ends the thread with notes that explain the reaction of Americans, who find such advertisements completely normal. “[In] In Britain, it is illegal to advertise drugs to the general public. Over there, people seeking healthcare are treated as customers of patients, ”Siddiqui wrote.
in Follow up post After her thread went viral, Siddiqui called the Brits “shock and disgust” in the ads, “a serious demonstration of the unique system of the US healthcare system.”
The interview, which was streamed on CBS on Sunday night by 17.1 million viewers, “was a rare moment for outsiders watching American live TV”, with Siddiqui gone, and serving as a moment of reflection by non-Americans Abolished “how unnecessarily painful and this country is strange.”
Queen Issued an official statement On Tuesday, “the whole family is grieved”, saying that “the issues raised,” Especially race, Are related “- though” remembrances may vary. “
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