No you are completely correct. The first time I was in the US and chanced upon the ads on TV in the hotel room, I was flabbergasted. For those that aren't familiar with them, they go something like this:
"Got a pain, a lump, bump, are you feeling tired, feeling fed up, feeling like you ought to be feeling tired and fed up, do you have a cough, sneeze, itch, weird skin blemish, do you have a disease, a cancer, or other fatal illness. Then ask your choice of (private) medical practitioner for <insert name of "miracle" drug>, you won't be sorry (subject to credit approval and / or confirmation your medical plan has drained you of enough money to pay for this stuff)."
<Cue fast speaking narration with quick moving subtitles>
"May cause nausea, sickness, pain in the left arm, pain in the right arm, dizziness, loss of cognitive functions, external bleeding, internal bleeding, heart palpitations, heart failure, liver problems, liver failure, limbs to fall off, limbs to fall off and burst into flames, death, war in a far off country..." *
*Please note this is a bit a humour, but look the ads up for yourselves. They will probably be available on media such as YouTube.