TMB allows physicians with out-of-state licenses
to practice in Texas during the emergency
Offers of help came from physicians across the country, including these:
• A physician from Pitt sburgh, Penn., who is a mental health expert in disaster medicine
• A physician who serves with the New York City Fire Department
• An emergency medicine physician in California who off ered to work for 7 – 10 days, using his vacati on ti me
• Two New Jersey internists who wanted to help but couldn’t get out-of-state license permission
over the Labor Day weekend
After working full shifts
at the Naval Air Station
Joint Reserve Base in Fort
Worth, Adam Danielson,
MD, a Navy physician
in town for two weeks,
worked the ��irst two
Saturday evenings the
clinic was open — from
7 p.m. to early morning.
After his ��irst Saturday,
he related the rewarding
experience to his
colleagues and recruited
another Navy physician,
Jacob Duong, MD, to help
with the second Saturday
evening shift. Duong
was at the clinic on his
weekend off from base
duties.
Sehr Haroon, MD, and her
team of emergency room
PAs, nurses and MAs drove
from Nebraska to Dallas to
work the ��irst Friday and
Saturday nights the shelter
opened. After working an
eight-hour night shift in
Omaha that Thursday, the
team drove 11 hours and
arrived on time for their
Friday shift.
Dr. Haroon, shown second
from right in the adjacent
photo, is president and
founder of the nonpro��it
SEHR (Self-empowered
Humanitarians for Relief)
Mission, established to
provide skilled medical/
dental care and living
necessities to those in need
around the world.
Kentucky physicians Drs.
Alexandra Kenner and Ryan
Beyer came to Dallas for a
college football game and
learned of the clinic; both then
volunteered. They received their
TMB out-of-state permission
while traveling and were excited
to add this impromptu volunteer
opportunity to their weekend.
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Texti Textiti ng with the
physicians who drove
their mobile medical
clinic down from
Nebraska to help in the
shelter clinic