Tennessee Code Title 63. Professions of the Healing Arts § 63-10-207

(1) The patient offers satisfactory evidence to the pharmacist that the prescriber has placed the patient on a maintenance medication and that such patient is without valid refills or for some valid reason cannot obtain proper authorization; and

(2) In the judgment of the pharmacist, the health, safety and welfare of the patient would otherwise be endangered.

(d)(1) For the purpose of this subsection (d) only, “patient” means a patient from this state, or another state or territory, who was displaced by a disaster, as defined in § 58-2-101, when the patient is present in this state.

(2) A pharmacist in this state may, in good faith, dispense to a patient without proper authorization or a valid prescription the number of dosages of a prescription drug necessary to allow the patient to secure proper authorization or a valid prescription from the patient's prescriber.

(3) The amount of a prescription drug dispensed under this subsection (d) shall not exceed a twenty-day supply.

(4) Prescription information may be obtained from a prescription label, verbal medical order, verbal prescription order, or any other means determined to be legitimate in the professional judgment of the pharmacist.