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 started doing watercolors and found that I had both the control and the willingness to let go to whatever that water does, which it does all sorts of wild things. That had the most influence on my oil painting of anything in recent time.
I am always thinking about paintings. I'll be like driving and I'm like, oh, I could paint this and put this color on top of it. It's just this weird thing going on in my head that I just kind of store in my brain.
I think the emphasis on money at the core of healthcare delivery too often is a big, big problem and needs to change.
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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.
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