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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We want to make new kidneys from stem cells and we are interested in the problem, how to put the blood vessels into these kidneys so that we can transplant newly made kidneys, organoids into humans.
I finally came to realize that actually writing was sort of my happy place. I need it. So that's part of that human spirit part, I think, creativity in all its different ways. However, it manifests for different people. I really think it feeds your soul and I have needed that at various points like anybody else.
What I found is the more I judged others, the more I'm judging myself. The more I accept myself, the more I'm accepting of others and all the different gifts that there are out there.
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.
Read More About LisaA selection of the most recent guests on Radio Maine.
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Watercolor asks an artist to give up something most of us spend our lives trying to hold onto: control. For Marion Wilson, that willingness…
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Growing up inside New York’s postwar art world gave Gina Sawin an extraordinary education. But becoming her own artist required something el…
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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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