Pin down whose name to search
Ask who would examine you or discuss your health problem: a doctor, nurse or another health professional. Get that person’s full name, job, licence number and the state that issued the licence.
A state medical board oversees doctors. You can use its public records to check a doctor’s licence and any action taken by the board (guidance checked September 17, 2026).
Go to the board’s record
A list of state medical boards links to each board’s own website. These links were checked September 17, 2026.
Search the board that issued the doctor’s licence. Is the licence still current? Has the board acted against this doctor, perhaps by limiting their licence? Match the name carefully.
Open the board-search starting points
Read what a clean result means
Finding no public action only tells you the board has not publicly acted against that doctor. You still do not know the quality of their care. That limit is explained in board guidance checked September 17, 2026.
Bring unanswered questions to the board. Ask the doctor how they would look into your health problem.
Check the pharmacy separately
Pharmacies get their licences from a different state board, the board of pharmacy. The FDA, which oversees US medicines, links to the state licence searches (links checked September 17, 2026).
Ask which pharmacy would prepare and send anything offered. Look up that name too.
A licence confirms the pharmacy is licensed. It cannot tell you whether the medicines are being supplied properly. That is a limit of the licence search in the FDA material checked September 17, 2026.