Removing a clinician's home address and phone number
Your licence is public by law, complete with your name and often a practice address. Patients and former patients sometimes escalate, and healthcare workers face a rate of workplace-adjacent harassment that most professions do not. Physician review sites and directory aggregators also publish contact details that frequently default to a home address.
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- Your licence record cannot be removed, and should not be — the goal is making sure it points at your practice rather than your house.
- Medical directory aggregators scrape licence data and republish it with whatever address they find, which is often residential.
- NPI registry data is public and widely scraped.
- 01Correct the address on file with your licensing board and the NPI registry to a practice address, first. Removal downstream is pointless while the source still says your house.
- 02Then all free people-search sites.
- 03Then medical directory aggregators and review sites.
- 04Then address-indexed property sites.
Two fields, no account, no card. See what is actually out there before deciding anything.
Licence records and the NPI registry are public and cannot be removed. Correcting the address they publish is the effective move, and it is more durable than any removal request.
The sites to take down first
Free and unpaywalled, which means anyone can use them with no account and no skill. These are the real risk.
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