Where can you check
an answer?

Is the doctor’s license current?

The Georgia Composite Medical Board license search lets you check for an active license held by a doctor or physician assistant.

It also lists public board orders: written decisions by the board about that health professional’s work.

An order may show that the board took action against a doctor over a problem with their work.

Read the decision to find out what happened and whether the doctor’s permission to practice has changed.

A record without public board action cannot show what quality of care the person gives.

What if the health professional is a nurse practitioner?

The Georgia Board of Nursing keeps nurses’ license records.

The medical board also lists the agreements that let nurse practitioners prescribe.

As of September 2026, a Georgia nurse practitioner can write prescriptions only through a written agreement with a doctor, sent to the medical board for review.

Which record covers the pharmacy?

The Georgia State Board of Pharmacy offers a license check for pharmacies and pharmacists.

As of September 2026, a pharmacy outside Georgia needs a Georgia nonresident permit to send prescription orders into the state.

Nonresident means based outside Georgia. Ask for the pharmacy’s full name so the record can be checked.

Does “FDA registered” mean approved?

FDA stands for Food and Drug Administration, a US agency whose work includes reviewing medicines.

“FDA registered” can refer to a company adding the place where it makes medicines to the FDA’s records.

That entry is called registration; a medicine’s entry in the records is called a listing.

As of September 2026, FDA consumer guidance says neither entry means the agency has approved the company or the medicine.

With FDA approval, the agency has reviewed evidence that a specific medicine works and is safe enough for its stated use.

The company’s entry in FDA records does not show that the medicine passed this review.

Is a custom medicine an approved generic?

A compounded medicine is prepared to order. A generic copies a brand medicine and has approval for that copy.

As of September 2026, the FDA’s advertising guidance says calling a made-to-order medicine an approved generic is misleading.

It also calls it misleading to describe a made-to-order medicine as the same as an FDA-approved medicine.

What does a report of harm prove?

The FDA’s medicine-problem report website lets the public look through reports of unwanted effects.

The website is called the Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS), formerly FAERS.

Such a report does not confirm that the medicine caused the problem, the FDA cautions.

Those reports also cannot show how often a problem happens among people using a medicine.