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Article: True North Health Center practices upstream medicine.(Pathways to Healing)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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When you walk in the door at True North Health Center, in Falmouth, Maine, you enter a large room with a skylight, a number of trees, and a waterfall. With 7,500 square feet, the facility has room for ten exam and treatment rooms, a patient resource area with high-speed internet access, and two conference rooms for classes and workshops. It has a 700 square-foot "teaching kitchen" where a natural foods chef demonstrates healthy, tasty cooking during regularly scheduled weekend workshops.
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But the most important thing that draws people to this integrative health center is the way they focus on their ...