Dr. John Ross

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...

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...