Santa Barbara Street Medicine

Press Releases:

In The Media ...!

Dr. Doohan was featured on local public television's "Non-Profit Spotlight", in an in-depth interview on her guiding role in "Santa Barbara Street Medicine".

New Clinic Caters to Homeless Women

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - The Women's Free Shelter Clinic Aims to Comfort Clients

No matter how small or picturesque the town is, the dangers of homelessness are multiplied for women. Unsheltered homeless women are both product and prey, desperate for protection but forced to give themselves away to get it. A homeless woman in a shelter is better off, but still not exactly safe. Read More

Ready for Next Time

Volunteer Corps Trained While Disaster Unfolded

By Isabelle T. Walker
Thursday, November 20, 2008, Santa Barbara Independent

In an eerie twist of fate, a cadre of elite emergency medicine physicians and government officials arrived at El Capitan Ranch on Thursday evening just as the Tea Fire was revving up. They were here to train Santa Barbara County Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), the all-volunteer corps of citizens including doctors, nurses, paramedics, veterinarians, communication specialists, and helicopter pilots intended to bolster existing medical services overwhelmed in a major ...[Read More]

Healing the Forgotten

Medical team brings healthcare fo the streets of Santa Barbara

By Isabelle T. Walker
Thursday, December 20, 2007, Santa Barbara Independent

By the Moreton Bay Fig Tree, across from the flood control tunnels that run under the 101 and a million miles from the Santa Barbara of the Conference and Visitors Bureau, a band of volunteer doctors and social workers search for sick homeless people. I followed this Doctors Without Walls (DWW) street medicine team on their Wednesday night rounds a few times this fall, watched them bandage up skin infections and measure the blood pressure of people no one wants to deal with. When it was not sad, it was a peculiarly exciting experience ... [Read More]

Doctors Redefine The 'House' Call

Family Practice News

By MARY ELLEN SCHNEIDER
September 15 , 2007, New York Bureau

Around the country, in places like Pittsburgh, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Morgantown, W.Va., physicians are becoming familiar sights onthe streets after dark.[Read More]

The kindness of strangers in Isla Vista

Dr. Mimi Doohan Treats the Homeless Where They Live

By Isabelle T. Walker
Thursday, March 1, 2007, Santa Barbara Independent

It is Monday night in Isla Vista and St. Athanasius Orthodox Church is serving up its weekly dinner for the homeless. A dozen or so bedraggled-looking souls wander onto the tidy, concrete patio for what will likely be their first and only square meal of the ... [Read More]

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