Even so, the advertising aspect seems relatively minor to the whole picture. Hospitals are the ones who need to worry most about FDA and non-FDA. Would a hospit

Even so, the advertising aspect seems relatively minor to the whole picture. Hospitals are the ones who need to worry most about FDA and non-FDA. Would a hospital be able to acquire the funding it needs if it ever allowed the prescription of any non-FDA approved drugs? What would insurance companies think? It opens up too many liabilities to try any experimental drugs--that is, drugs not approved by a mandating organization--for any large organizations to consider doing it. Then we're back where we started--we need something like the FDA, though definitely in a more efficient form.