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I think the most interesting thing about it was that it wasn't something to be prideful of being French Canadian back then. It was something that it was kind of quiet, you kind of pushed that away, you just assimilated. And I think that's so much what we see with immigrants today, that it's always this push and pull in the United States.
Maybe as a parent, parents sometime they know us better than ourself.
It doesn't matter if we have the best medicine available and prescribe it, if people will not stay on it and take it, it does no good.
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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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