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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Most trash in the ocean is from land-based sources, from carried by rivers or wind. So if we're able to control the waste stream upstream a little and make less trash in the first place, that's really how we're going to get out of this mess.
With telehealth, it's really easy to cut people off and feel rushed. And so I think there is a balance of figuring out that communication. So yeah, it's definitely a skillset, not to mention we got to figure out how to do a physical exam sometimes when we're just completely telehealth.
When I got to New York, I thought, oh my God, I love it here. I just love it. It's kind of like when I'm looking at houses I want to paint.
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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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From Off the Wall · Portland Art Gallery Artist
I consider the opportunity I have to paint to be a gift.
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