Comprehensive Alternative Health Care For Even The Most Complex Conditions
Telehealth and remote care specializing in complex conditions, alternative therapies and treatment choices for the most difficult to manage conditions or diagnoses
We provide support and medical services for the most difficult to manage conditions, where first line, or conventional treatment has failed. We provide expert help for Individuals investigating alternative approaches to illness, health and maintained function alongside assistance with incorporating plant therapies into your existing treatment
Integrative and lifestyle health
Complex care planning and co-ordination
Integrative and lifestyle health
Non pharmaceutical pain treatments
Plant based treatments and natural therapies
Weight loss dietary and nutrition
Cardiovascular health and exercise
Perimenopausal health and symptom management
Mental health conditions
Perimenopausal health and symptom management
A focus on patient wellbeing and function not just illness
Plant based treatments and natural therapies
Integrative and lifestyle health
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Treatment of chronic pain and anxiety
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Help with digestive disorders and symptom management in a host of conditions
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A new hope for symptom relief and pain control
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Please note the TGA has restrictions on advertising unapproved therapeutic goods
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Evaluation of heart, lung and metabolic function
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Tests specific to your personal concerns
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Medical testing for health, fitness and function
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Body composition scanning
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Fitness testing
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For both symptoms and recognition of underlying causes
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Help with the emotional consequences of difficult diagnoses
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Direction for longer term management
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Help and advice with dependency and alternatives to opiate use
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A range of investigations and tests to identify and treat problems with digestion
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Diagnosis and evaluation of digestive problems
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Treatment advice and help with prescription weight loss products
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Crohn's and Ulcerative Cholis
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Alternative treatments for anxiety and depression
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Help understanding therapeutic options
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Addiction and drug and alcohol use help support and guidance
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Education and advice and support that's specific to individuals circumstances
Icarus is an telehealth based medical practice aimed at individuals dealing with complex or difficult to manage health issues with a slightly different approach to medical practice.
there are 5 primary areas of focus.
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Cardiovascular Health, Mobility & Exercise
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Pain Investigation and Treatment
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Digestion, Gut Health and Weight loss
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Mental Health and Sleep
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Natural Herb and Plant Therapies
The aim is to provide accessible, affordable, individualized healthcare, with an open mind around treatment choice that respects alternative solutions and individual choice and complements their current services.
More specifically the goal is to help educate and inform individuals to make their own choices on their treatment and negotiate the complexity of medical care.
Incorporating plant therapy treatment into your wider treatment is only one option. The key is creating an open but clear and structured approach to complex illness that makes even the most difficult conditions and circumstances become much more easily understood leaves patients in control of their treatment to manage their lives and health.
Booking
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Press the appropriate button in the section below.
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Provide details and create an account for new customers.
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Pick a consult type and time.
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Generally, a payment request will be sent after the consultation alongside issuing prescriptions or written reports or referrals.
Enquires
feel free to SMS (much preferred) 0404 022 346
or email dr.ross@dricarus.com.au
patient wellbeing and function not just illness
Complex care planning and co-ordination
Mental health conditions
Integrative and lifestyle health
Integrative and lifestyle health
Perimenopausal health and symptom management
Plant based treatments and natural therapies
Whole person healthcare
Integrative and lifestyle health
Comprehensive Natural Health care
Lifestyle Medicine
The online treatment space is dominated by providers with a focus on speed and quantity rather than quality of care, no questions asked medications. Icarus is very much the opposite of that model.
There's much more to treating people than simply prescribing. Treatment is primarily about solving problems and facilitating patients reaching their own goals, and helping them use the resources available in the health system to make the most of the options available .
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Communication
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Education
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Personalized treatment
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Understanding and support
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Responsible care
Alternative therapies have a genuine role for very many conditions, but alternative approaches don't always need to be....... unscientific. Few interventions are quite as useful as a balanced, thought-out treatment plan. Medicine is a complex business and its frequently a good idea to seek additional advice if you find yourself, or a loved one, in a situation where you've run out of options or you don't know how to get help or where to go next. If doing things the same old way isn't working, maybe try something new?
Natural Herb & Plant Therapies
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Living Better
Pain Investigation & Treatment
Getting on with life
Initial consultation with an evaluation and history. Trial initial treatments
Order of diagnostic Tests Review results and treatment progress
Compile results and discuss the findings and treatment options
Exploring Emerging Therapies
Current regulations limit how specifically I can discuss certain treatments outside of a direct clinical consultation. However, the recent public interest in new medical options — particularly the medications and injections for weight management — has drawn attention to the wider possibilities offered by these types of emerging therapies. These alone offer life changing possibilities for diabetic prevention and weight control
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Weight loss
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Muscle and tendon Injury
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Chronic inflammatory disease
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Gut and digestion
Beyond the options for weight management, ongoing advances in medicine are opening new ways to approach long-standing challenges: managing inflammation, supporting recovery from muscular, ligament, and skeletal injuries, improving digestive health, and enhancing day-to-day physical function.
As part of your consultation, we can explore whether these emerging options may be appropriate for your circumstances, in the context of your overall health and treatment goals, and consider how to incorporate them into your wider care as well as the issues and challenges that come with trialing new medications safely, responsibly and with support.
Create treatment plan and Integrate care
Initial consultation with an evaluation and history. Trial initial treatments
Monitor Improvement and guide treatment choices
Review effects and modify, establish repeat treatments
Integrate and discus with other treatment providers
Few interventions are quite as useful as a balanced, thought-out treatment plan
How It All Works......
Lifestyle Medicine
Flexible Pricing – Built on Trust, Designed for Fairness
Medical care should be accessible to everyone especially those facing financial hardship due to illness or social circumstances,
For this reason, I offer each patient a choice in how much they pay and encourage people to choose the option they can afford (but please remember this system exists to help others, who might be less able access treatment themselves. Your kindness goes a long way.
3 choices:
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Concession Fee – for patients experiencing financial difficulty.
2. Standard Fee – the regular rate for consultations.
3. Community Supporter Rate – for those able and willing to contribute more, helping to keep concession pricing available for patients in hardship.
Pay what you can afford.
This system is built on mutual trust and respect. To help those who might otherwise be unable to afford treatment. Most patients choose the Standard Fee, and many generously contribute at the Community Supporter Rate. This generosity ensures concession pricing can remain available for those who need it most.
Responsible Use of the Concession Fee
The concession rate is intended to support access to essential, core treatments for patients in genuine hardship, not designed for large-volume product requests or for situations where choices suggest the cost of care is not a significant burden.
To keep the system fair and sustainable:
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Concession pricing may be time-limited and reviewed periodically.
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Ongoing concession access may require confirmation of genuine need (e.g., healthcare card or similar evidence).
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Additional or non-essential services may be billed at the Standard Fee.
Why This Matters....
Patients facing severe financial challenges might avoid or otherwise delay seeking care due to embarrassment or cost concerns. By respecting the intent of the concession rate and by contributing at the Standard or Community Supporter Rate when you are able — you help ensure these individuals can access care,
Choosing the option that best reflects your circumstances helps keep this experimental community-based model alive and helps deliver care to those who might otherwise not be able to afford assistance.
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Repeat Scripts
brief check in's for established patients, with known issues (standard consultations are the default choice, in most circumstances especially if we haven't talked recently) Voice/Data
$100
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Long Consultation
$150
$120
$170
Appointments that give enough time to tackle difficult or complex topics, frequently useful for mental health discussions or complex treatment issues Voice (video available soon)
Standard Consultation
Diagnostic review management with on going evaluation and planning treatment Voice (video available soon)
$125
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$140
Initial Consultation
-Comprehensive overview and background -evaluation of general physical, mental health -assessment of past and current health issues -Identification of specific problem areas -planning and assessment for complex care -diagnostic testing recommendations -Specific evaluation as it relates to natural therapeutic options -First prescriptions and pharmacy assistance -A summary/report with instructions on treatment and medical management and diagnostic planning where required to help discuss the subject with your wider team or GP
$150
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$170
About: Who, When , Where.
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Dr Anderson is a seasoned healthcare professional with a distinguished twenty-year career encompassing medicine, academia, workplace health, and law. A graduate of Monash University and the University of Melbourne, Latrobe and Napier Universities His expertise in addiction, research, and clinical practice is complemented by a strong background in complex healthcare management. His exceptional problem-solving skills were recognized with the Telstra Sales Consultant of the Year award in 1999. He spearheaded the establishment of experimental acute medical wards at Monash and Dandenong hospitals. Ross specializes in the complexities of lifestyle medicine and psychological support, particularly in drug use and addiction. His unique blend of skills and knowledge enables him to provide comprehensive care for patients with complex needs.
My name is Ross I’m a doctor with degrees in medicine, medical science, and biological Science with honors in human physiology alongside post graduate qualifications in law and addiction. I’ve practiced medicine since 2006 authored research, been an investigator on several clinical trials, worked in medicolegal investigations and addiction treatment. I believe strongly in health education, individual agency and helping individuals exercise choice around their own health and explore alternative treatments and therapies. After many years of practice and having worked all over Australia, I've come to believe there is a better way to provide medical care Icarus is my own small attempt at a step in that direction.
Ross
I'm not sure that people believe me when I say this, but Icarus was never really intended to be a business, per se. it began, very much, as an experiment, testing my belief that it was possible to create a highly personalized medical service to help people with particularly tricky medical concerns. Either complex areas of management, like psychological trauma or addiction, diagnostically challenging conditions or medicolegally complex concerns, essentially all the areas that are difficult to get help with.
So, it's been a while now, seems like a pretty good time to look back on things.
Because this wasn't built or intended as a "commercial interest", until recently, I was charging a pretty nominal fee, essentially to cover expenses, but.... surprisingly, that created quite a few issues. Sheer demand in itself became a problem. I often found that I was booked out for weeks in advance, creating a delay in providing help when people needed it, and alongside, just managing the backlog became a task in it's self. More surprisingly, I also found that the reduced pricing seemed to..... almost encourage some really unfortunate attitudes and oddly commercial expectations and demands around service despite the very low cost, which is really sad but also confusing.
Ultimately this got in the way of dealing with the sorts of patients and people I wanted to help, those with difficult life circumstances, complex health issues or multiple medical concerns. Those individuals require some predictability and certainty around access and timing which was hampered by the level of demand and waiting lists. I needed a new pricing model.
However, accessibility is a very important consideration. Health issues, emotional concerns and financial difficulties go, and often arrive, together.
So I've also decided to commit to something new, a flexible payment model. So far, it's been very successful, and I am expanding the idea to offer 3 tiers of voluntary payment. My hope is this will help make treatment affordable for those who are in financial difficulties without cost being a primary consideration. I understand that such challenges can effect anyone regardless of their past employment or circumstances, so I want to have a degree of flexibility in how it's implemented. It’s a difficult concept to make work in the real world, but I think it’s worth trying for multiple reasons.
Over the next few months, I also want to further expand the range of treatments offered and start helping people access some of the other more exciting therapies that might be a little tricky to access through a local GP in treatment resistant or complex illnesses, feel free to ask if that's something that interests you, and I'll talk to you soon,
