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# Check the person. Then check the pharmacy.

Ask for names that can be checked in official records. Treat a badge as a starting point for questions.

Records briefing · September 17 and September 26, 2026.

In this briefing

- Start with your treating professional’s full name

- Read what a clean record actually means

- Get the dispensing pharmacy’s name

- Check permission to send it to your state

- Registration is a different claim from approval

## Start with your treating professional’s full name

Use the state medical board to check a doctor’s current license and any published discipline. The amount of detail released is set by each board.

Ask for the person’s name and type of license. Check with the state body that issues that license.

For doctor-licensing board links, open the Federation of State Medical Boards directory.

Find the relevant medical board

## Read what a clean record actually means

A clear public record means no public action by the board is recorded there. Care quality cannot be judged from that record alone.

The medical-board directory covers doctors. For another health professional, ask which state body issues their license.

## Get the dispensing pharmacy’s name

Ask who would prepare the medicine and who would send it. Then check the name in the pharmacy-board records.

Each state’s online pharmacy license list can be reached from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) page.

Select your state first, then look up the pharmacy by name in its records. If the online pharmacy is missing from your state’s list, FDA advises against using it.

Find your state’s pharmacy license search

## Check permission to send it to your state

Most states ask a pharmacy based elsewhere to hold local permission before mailing medicines in, as checked September 26, 2026.

Do not assume that finding a license elsewhere answers the question for your state. Ask the receiving state’s pharmacy board.

## Registration is a different claim from approval

“FDA registered” refers to a business’s record with FDA; “drug listing” refers to a drug’s record with FDA.

Neither means FDA has approved the business or the drug, under US rules checked September 26, 2026.

Record the names, the lookup result and the date of your own check. Bring unresolved points back to the service.

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## Endnotes for this chapter

- Medical boards: public records and their limits

What a board record can establish.

- Directory of doctor-licensing boards

A route to the board that holds the record.

- FDA route to pharmacy-board searches

Check the pharmacy through the state record.

- FDA: pharmacy questions

Includes the state-licensing check.

- Federal rule on registration and listing

Why registration is no approval stamp.

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