Prior authorization has a specific texture in physician community conversations: it appears in threads about burnout, career change, and moral injury more reliably than almost any other administrative topic. When usernamedmed posted to r/medicine requesting three people to try a free tool that handles payer criteria lookups and drafts the authorization letter, the restraint of the ask — no signup, no company, just watch me watch you — functioned as a kind of signal flare . It named the problem with enough specificity to reach physicians who have stopped responding…