Find the official record behind an answer

Use the Florida records for state permission and the federal records for product status. Each has a different job.

Follow the answer back to its source.

For the person and the visit

Florida’s licence search shows who holds a licence. It also has profiles and public records of board action.

Florida’s online-care pages explain how a person licensed to give care in another state can register to treat someone here.

Ask for a full name and record number before using those searches.

FDA, the US medicine review agency, says compounded medicines have no FDA approval. Compounded means made or mixed to order.

Its online-pharmacy guide points readers to state licence records.

Its updates show how national shortages affect the rules on making copies of medicines.

The licence record does not score the quality of a person’s care.

Reporting a medicine problem gives no proof that the medicine was its cause.

The National Library of Medicine directs readers to a qualified health professional for a diagnosis or personal health questions.

Take the product name, your questions and the record you found into that conversation.