Sorry, I do have a clue. I do know what treatment authorizations / prior authorizations are. I have plenty of anecdotes that could fill another article about the meaningless and insensitive ways that insurance companies employ treatment authorizations to deny treatment. That is not the focus of this article.

Please read more closely before you comment. None of the examples I discuss involved treatment authorizations or insurance companies denying treatment. These were all instances of pharmacists using their discretionary powers, and using them inappropriately, or at best inarticulately.

I acknowledged the corporate pressures that affect pharmacists, doctors, and patients.

My bigger point, and your comments may be an excellent example of this, is how, in our modern society, individuals are more prone to jump in quickly with their responses, when a more thoughtful consideration of the situation would lead to a different, more harmonious, and more helpful response. Our modern culture is rewiring all of our brains, and not in a particularly positive way.

Finally, I am baffled why you would state that physicians "never undergo" training in "clinical aspects of disease processes: or "chemical and biological makeup of medications" - those are all topics that medical school training boards mandate that every medical student learn.