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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Healthcare is a team sport always has been, but it's become more so and I think realizing that made it all the more important to provide opportunities for others to get into, stick their toe in the pond of leadership roles and encourage their development.
Looking at the underlying reasons for the diabetes, so is it stress? Is it nutrition? Those are different ways to come at it. And then support that person with different plants. It's different than looking at just the diabetes and say, here is cinnamon, and here is Metformin, which is an anti-diabetic medication, really looking at the person and how they got there.
I think it's sometimes romantic to think I'm going to paint and I'm going to have my work at a gallery and I'm going to just be an artist, but there's a lot that goes under that cap.
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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.
Recent essays from Dr. Lisa Belisle's Substack on medicine, place, and the creative life.
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Previously: Love Maine Radio
Quick clips from recent conversations.