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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One of the major conversations is access to care. There's just not a lot of access to care. Not everybody treats substance use disorder. Not everybody wants that to be part of their practice.
What we're helping our clients do is finding that connection, finding the ways in which it connects to them. Sometimes it's through the artist's story, sometimes through it's what the visual language is, sometimes it's just the beauty of it.
Pandemic came, then it shifted and became something different with his having to do remote learning. We chose to be remote learners. And so that was essentially I do, you're given instruction in the morning. And then it's up to you as a parent to make sure that the actual schooling happens. So I learned a lot of math. I learned the new way to learn math, which I had no idea that were teaching.
Meet Your Host
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
Quick clips from recent conversations.