Jon --
I don't disagree that it can be a timesaver.
But we shouldn't be wasting that time in the first place!
Drug companies are only interested in keeping the price high, and one of the ways to do that is to require "prior authorization" -- even of common, generic meds to force the insurance companies and the government to pay their inflated prices.
They (or their marketing departments) have simply become intolerable systemic parasites.
Any cooperation with "prior authorization" for anything other than unusual and life-sustaining meds is simply enabling behavior. At your expense, with the patient held hostage.
I is unconsionable, what they do.
