Dr. John Ross

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...

Does this image look familiar? No matter where we see groups of people, most, if not all of them, are quietly staring at their smart phones, not talking. Many have head or earphones in place. What are they looking at or listening to on those phones? Having a supercomputer in your hand, connected to the ‘world-wide-web' is literally mind boggling. There is SO MUCH information available, from so many sources, that most of us can be overwhelmed. Artificial Intelligence has now taken all of that...

In the past year or so, Mentor Clinic has been running group sessions on topics such as heart health, diabetes, metabolic health, sleep, and one on menopause. While it is hard to cover everything in one session, and we always need more time for questions and discussions, that was particularly true for the menopause session. On October 17, Halifax hosted the first Atlantic Menopause Show – with an audience of over 700 women! Four Mentor Clinic staff attended and it was FANTASTIC! It further...