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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Culture is the roots for everything else. As long as we know about their cultural backgrounds, we can have a better communication.
The unfortunate part is we do make those mistakes and we're continuing to, and I'm still here for it. And I also know that love heals. I also, the truth heals and we can do both at the same time.
Next to the heart it's chronic kidney disease, which is the most important disease, crippling disease in the US. Over the last three years we have developed new ways to treat chronic kidney disease. There are now medications out there where we can actually perhaps not completely stop the progression, but we can slow the progression of chronic kidney disease.
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
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