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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Maine is very relationship oriented and people want to see other people succeed. If we have a big bustling startup scene, it benefits the larger companies and vice versa.
Every person sees that in their own way. And those observations are information and they can be valid scientific pieces of information. Keeping them in a notebook for yourself is wonderful. And there's also certainly ways to engage and provide that information to scientists that can use that to look at long term and more widespread patterns.
My wife and I used to joke that the fledgling chicks look like a fluffy marshmallow on two toothpicks. They're just so cute.
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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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I consider the opportunity I have to paint to be a gift.
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