Dr. John Ross

If there is one word that describes the foundation of strong, lasting relationships, it is trust. For hundreds of thousands of years, trust has shaped how humans get along. Our success as a social species depends on it. The Cambridge Dictionary defines trust this way: "To believe that someone is good and honest and will not harm you, or that something is safe and reliable." Sadly, trust isn't as easy to find as it used to be. Researchers, governments, and polling companies have all tracked a...

Mentor Clinic was created to give you access to a wide range of experts who can help you stay healthy and manage health problems when they come up. This approach is often called “collaborative care” — you and the Mentor Clinic team work together to reach and maintain your health goals. Like any community-based clinic, there are some things we cannot do here — such as major surgery, advanced diagnostic tests, most imaging (X-rays, CT scans, MRI), emergency care, and critical care. But we can...

How short specialist visits to our team help patients get safe, evidence and experience-based care, faster It’s common knowledge that the wait time to see specialists in Nova Scotia is variable, but mostly long…too long. The most urgent referrals are seen fairly quickly, and the less urgent must wait. NS Wait Times Site: https://waittimes.novascotia.ca/procedure/general-internal-medicine#trends In this graph, the 50th percentile red line, just under 100 days in this case, means 50% will be...