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Medicine schools in anywhere except USA. Farmacists, medics, nurses, life rescuers, hospitals, social workers. They're all encouraged to use the active components of medicines and not commercial brand names. Specially because there are differences in regulations and sometimes the commercial names don't carry the same formulation in other markets, or are US specific. Tylenol for example doesn't exist in Latin America. But you can find many other brands and presentations of paracetamol as acetaminophen.
Of course Tylenol exists in LatAm! At least in Brazil it does..but we buy paracetamol because its cheaper
Case in point. The pharmaceutical market in Brazil doesn't look anything like the one in Colombia, Venezuela or Ecuador. Because each country has their own sanitary regulations body.