Each week, host Dr. Lisa Belisle sits down with the people who shape the state: entrepreneurs and educators, physicians and artists, community builders and keepers of place. She brings a clinician's ear and two decades in radio and writing to every conversation.
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I absolutely agree that a hotel is, a hotel is a hotel. They're all same in multiple different ways. And what really differentiates that experience for our guests is their interactions with your service team.
There's this idea that women artists are a new thing or a recent thing from the 19th century, but the fact is you had extremely important women artists in the 16th, 17th century, and I want to highlight their stories and show that they were sometimes as highly regarded as their male peers and they were more successful than some contemporary male artist.
I was a pediatrician for about 20 years in clinical practice, most of it in hospitals. I think I really experienced a lot of that extreme fatigue being a hospitalist. I was working half day shifts, half night shifts. So for about 10 years I didn't really get very good sleep at all.
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MD · PhD · MPH · MBA
Dr. Lisa Belisle is a board-certified family physician, writer, and the host of Radio Maine. She works at the intersection of medicine and the human spirit, in the clinic, on the air, and on the page.
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Radio Maine is produced in partnership with the Portland Art Gallery, Maine's premier destination for contemporary fine art. Visit the gallery at 154 Middle Street in Portland, or explore the work of gallery artists online.
From Off the Wall · Portland Art Gallery Artist
I consider the opportunity I have to paint to be a gift.
Recent essays from Dr. Lisa Belisle's Substack on medicine, place, and the creative life.
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Previously: Love Maine Radio
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