Betsy Hart

Elizabeth Hart, MD is a family physician with additional Board Certification in both Geriatrics and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Her clinical practice at Maine General Health in Augusta focuses on caring for people with advanced dementia, primarily in nursing homes and at home. She is deeply committed to encouraging patients and their families to be active partners in their healthcare, to overcoming power imbalances in medicine and to bringing compassion to the institutionalized practice of medicine. She has taught Medical Humanities in health professions academic programs, has been an active supporter of the Maine Humanities Council’s Literature and Medicine Program since early in its planning process and has served as a facilitator of groups at two hospitals in Maine.