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Dr.
Tallman Ruhm is a Board Certified Family Physician whose
primary focus is integrative medicine and patient
education through individual consultations and group
activities. She draws on both her conventional western
training and experience with complementary health
practices to understand her patient's individual needs.
Dr.
Tallman Ruhm has a particular interest in helping
families and individuals who suffer symptoms consistent
with the autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and has
received training from the DAN! (Defeat Autism Now!)
Conference. She feels that modern day childhood
illnesses such as ADD, ADHD and Autism and their
therapies, provide an incredible window into many of the
health challenges people of all ages face today. Her
work reflects the belief that our bodies are designed to
heal and that their capacity to function or recover
depends on one's unique ability to access and utilize
important nutrients and to detoxify or eliminate
materials that are potentially harmful.
She
advocates methods which require active patient
participation to promote the body's own healing
processes. This approach is based on the belief that an
individual's health (mind, body, and spirit) reflect
one's history, environment and personal habits and that
each must be addressed to achieve optimal health.
Dr.
Tallman Ruhm was born and raised in Montana. She
attended Montana State University as an undergraduate
and later the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
where she received a Master's in Public Policy and met
her future husband, a New Hampshire native. She then
attained her MD degree from the University of New Mexico
School of Medicine and completed her Family Medicine
Residency in Colorado and Alabama. She practiced
ambulatory medicine on the West Coast first with a large
HMO and then with an integrative clinic, the Whitaker
Wellness Institute, before settling in Southern New
Hampshire with her family.
Dr.
Tallman Ruhm is also a certified yoga instructor and an
outdoor enthusiast. She has a life-long interest in
nutrition, language, philosophy, gardening and
athletics. She brings an approach to wellness that
integrates the best of traditional and alternative
medicines.
Dr.
Tallman Ruhm welcomes patients who want to augment their
health care with tests and/or treatments that focus on
healing and lifestyle changes. Just as the other
practitioners at the Center for Integrative Medicine,
she does not accept primary care patients. She is
available on a regular part time basis as of the fall of
2007.
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