I am a resident physician in Baltimore who takes care of adults and children. I wrote a prescription for a patient upon discharge to continue two important medicines that were started by an inpatient specialist while he was admitted to the hospital for over two months. I received two prior authorizations for these medicines requesting additional documentation for these medicines that he had been on for at least a month. This delayed him getting these medicines refilled, causing his parents to stretch the quantity of medicine they had and give him less than he needed. He was finally able to get the medicines after multiple physicians and other staff worked on it for over multiple hours. The system needs to be changed to allow patients to get timely and necessary care.