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A pharmacist receives a prescription and believes there is a dosing error, so calls the physician to clarify. The office secretary takes a message to pass on to the physician. An hour later, the secretary calls back and says,“I spoke with the doctor and the prescription was written correctly. Dispense as it is written,” providing no other information or details. The pharmacist then documents “spoke with MD office and confirmed dose.” In this scenario, the pharmacist identified a potential problem and contacted the physician’s office. Instead of speaking directly with the physician, the pharmacist passed information to the secretary and was satisfied when she called back confirming that the physician wanted the prescription dispensed as written. Why are we so easily convinced that just because physicians confirm they want something, it is automatically correct?