barrister bullets BARRISTERS SEPTEMBER MONTHLY MEETING Everyone is invited to attend the Barristers’ monthly meetings, which are held on the second Wednesday of the month. The September monthly meeting will be on Wednesday, September 15th at The Firefly at the Hilton Knoxville. Networking will begin at 5:00 p.m., and committee reports will begin at 5:15 p.m. To attend, register for the meeting at www.knoxbar.org.
BREWS FOR BACKPACKS- THANK YOU! The Hunger and Poverty Relief Committee would like to thank everyone who attended our 3rd Annual Brews for Backpacks event on August 5 at Barrelhouse by Gypsy Cider. We collected more than 15 backpacks filled with school supplies and raised over $730 to purchase more school supplies to donate to ChildHelp Foster Family Agency of East Tennessee! We would also like to thank our event sponsor, TCV Trust & Wealth Management, for helping make this event possible.
OCTOBER COAT DRIVE The Hunger & Poverty Relief Committee would like Barristers to keep a look out for the annual coat drive, currently scheduled to take place this October. The committee will be accepting new or gently used coats on behalf of KARM’s Coats for the Cold program. VETERANS LEGAL CLINIC TO BE HELD IN-PERSON The Veterans’ Legal Advice Clinic is a joint project of the KBA/Barristers Access to Justice Committees, Legal Aid of East Tennessee, the Knox Co. Public Defender’s Community Law Office, the UT College of Law, LMU- Duncan School of Law, and the local Veterans Affairs office. This is a general advice and referral clinic which requires attorney volunteers for its continued operation. We serve approximately twenty to thirty veterans each month who have a variety of legal issues, including, but not limited to, family law, landlord/tenant, bankruptcy, criminal defense, consumer protection, contract, child support, and personal injury issues. We need attorney volunteers for the next two (2) clinics, which will be held on September 8 and October 13 from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. at the Knox Co. Public Defender’s Community Law Office (1101 Liberty Street). Register to participate by clicking on September 8 and October 13 in the Event Calendar at www.knoxbar.org. VOLUNTEER BREAKFAST COMMITTEE The Volunteer Breakfast Committee is now able to prepare breakfast at the Volunteer Ministry Center on the fourth Thursday of every month beginning at 6 a.m. A big thank you to everyone who participated in June’s Volunteer Breakfast event, especially this month’s sponsor: Egerton, McAfee, Armistead & Davis, PC! This month’s volunteers are pictured (left to right) Sallie Neese (Lewis Thomason), Emma Knapp (Lewis Thomason), and Committee Chairs Mitchell Panter (Lewis Thomason) and Matt Knable (Knable Law). The Barristers Volunteer Breakfast Committee is seeking a sponsor for the breakfast in October. Please contact Matt Knable (knablelaw@gmail.com) or Mitchell Panter (mpanter@ lewisthomason.com) for questions regarding sponsorship or if you would like to volunteer.
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Id. See also Kaptchuk & Miller, supra note 1, at 1 (“The dialogue [with study participants] emphasized, ‘let’s see what happens.’”). 21 Kaptchuk, Research Agenda, supra note 16, at 316-318 (addressing outcomes in studies involving IBS, cancer related fatigue, allergic rhinitis, and migraines and concluding “[T]he consistency and magnitude of symptomatic relief across these several studies, involving a diverse set of medication [sic] conditions and implemented in different hospitals in the United States and Europe, suggest that a real therapeutic benefit may be produced by the OLP intervention.”). 22 Cara Feinberg, The Placebo Phenomenon An Ingenious Researcher Finds the Real Ingredients of “Fake” Medicine, Harvard Magazine, 37 (January-February 2013). 23 Id. 24 Id. 25 Id. 26 Kaptchuk & Miller, supra note 1, at 1-2 (explaining that placebos will not shrink tumors or treat malaria or high cholesterol, but they may effectively address symptoms like pain, hot flushes, and nausea. Id. at 2. 27 See, e.g., Barbara Glesner Fines & Cathy Madsen, Caring Too Little, Caring Too Much: Competence and the Family Law Attorney, 75 UMKC L. Rev. 965, 979 (2007) (noting the impact of clients’ fear, anger, and vulnerability on the representation and the need for lawyers to make connections through empathetic listening). 28 Verhulst, et al., The Medical Alliance From Placebo Response to Alliance Effect, J. of Nervous & Mental Disease, Vol. 201, No. 7, 546, 547 (July 2013), citing J.M. Traveline, et al., Patient-Physician Communication: Why and How, J. Am. Osteopath Assoc. 105:13-18 (2005). 29 Verhulst, supra note 27, at 547, citing H.T. Stelfox, et al., The Relation of Patient Satisfaction with Complaints Against Physicians and Malpractice Lawsuits, Am. J. Med. 118:1126-1133 (2005). See also Nathalie Martin, The Virtue of Vulnerability, 48 Sw. L. Rev. 367, 375 (2019) (“[S]imply put, patients do not sue doctors they like and trust.”). 30 Verhulst, supra note 27, at 547, citing H. Zolnierek, et al., Physician Communication and Patient Adherence to Treatment: A Meta-Analysis, Med. Care 47:826-834 (2009). 20
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