Physicians, psychiatrists, therapists, and other clinicians are required to maintain public licensing records and NPI registrations. These professional records, combined with personal data on places that know you, make it easy for anyone, including patients, to find your home address and family information.
Protect your practice boundary →Your full legal name lives in multiple public databases by regulation. Data brokers connect those records to your personal life.
State medical boards, NPI lookup tools, and DEA registrations all publish your full legal name alongside your practice location and specialty. That makes you easy to verify, which gives data brokers high-confidence matches when they link your professional identity to personal records.
A patient who knows your name and practice location can find your home address on a people-search site in minutes. For most clinicians, this is an abstract concern. For those in psychiatry, addiction medicine, forensic evaluation, or involuntary commitment, the risk is more concrete. Boundary violations and fixation are occupational realities.
Data listings often include personal cell numbers. For clinicians who maintain strict professional boundaries, having a personal number publicly searchable undermines the separation between practice contact channels and personal life. A dissatisfied patient or former patient who finds your cell number has bypassed every boundary you've established.
Healthgrades, Vitals, Zocdoc, and similar directories create additional SEO weight around your name. Combined with listings, a name search for a clinician often returns both professional and personal information on the same results page, making it effortless to cross-reference between your practice and your home.
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See where connect your practice to your home address and personal phone number.
Protect your practice boundary →We scan every place that knows you — data brokers, AI services, public records — for your name, phone, email, and address. You'll see which sites connect your professional identity to your home address, personal phone, and family members.
We handle opt-out submissions across every site where your personal data appears. Automated forms, legal deletion requests, and operator-group resolution for every place that knows yous. Professional directory listings (Healthgrades, etc.) remain untouched.
Each removal is verified. Non-compliant brokers receive escalated legal requests under CCPA and GDPR. Persistent listings get additional remediation until resolved.
License renewals, address changes, and data source refreshes generate new listings. We detect re-appearances automatically and submit removals before someone searching your name finds your home address.
| Manual opt-outs | Generic privacy tools | Delist.ai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Places covered | 10-20 | 50-200 | Every place that knows you |
| Re-listing detection | You notice it yourself | Periodic | Continuous |
| Household coverage | Repeat for each person | Varies | Family plans |
| Legal deletion requests | Draft and send yourself | Rarely | CCPA/GDPR |
| Time investment | Hours (between patients) | Setup + check-ins | Fully managed |
| Professional vs personal separation | Research which sites mix them | No distinction | Personal only |
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