Search results: Leanne Rowe

  • Issue 3 / 29 January 2024
    Doctors behaving badly 'on notice'

    Under the recently amended Sex Discrimination Act, the medical profession risks attracting the scrutiny of the Australian Human Rights Commission unless sex discrimination, sexual harassment, sex-based harassment, and victimisation of complainants or witnesses are eliminated in its workplaces and training…


  • Issue 48 / 11 December 2023
    What a year! Signing off from the InSight+ team

    As 2023 comes to a close, so too does our first year bringing you InSight+ every week. It’s been a challenging year, but also a rewarding one, as the InSight+ team worked hard to bring you the latest medical news and expert opinion with each issue. Before we head off on a well earned holiday, we wanted…


  • Issue 37 / 3 October 2023
    Every doctor can create a psychologically safe health care workplace

    Parts 1 and 2 of this three-part series were a call to action to the medical profession to unite and transform its approach to preventing and managing work-related burnout and mental injury in doctors. In Part 3, my goal is to begin a positive conversation about the role of senior doctors in cocreating…


  • Issue 36 / 25 September 2023
    Every doctor can recover from work-related mental injury

    This second opinion piece in the three-part series is a call for further action by a united medical profession to address the enormous scale of work-related burnout and mental injury in doctors who work in psychologically unsafe health care workplaces. There are solutions. When a 24-year-old labourer’s…


  • Issue 35 / 18 September 2023
    Addressing mental health problems in doctors’ children  

    Many medical organisations and health services are working diligently to reduce the enormous scale of burnout and mental injury in doctors, but further action is required to address its impact on doctors’ families, writes Dr Leanne Rowe in part one of this three-part series.  During Australia’s…


  • Issue 19 / 29 May 2023
    Every doctor has a right to a safe workplace

    Verbal and physical assault in hospital wards, accident and emergency departments and primary care should never be accepted as “part of the job” and more steps must be taken to keep all health care workers safe, including doctors, write Dr Gifar Hassan and Clinical Professor Leanne Rowe AM. The…


  • Issue 15 / 1 May 2023
    Medicare limitations causing preventable blindness

    Urgent action is required to address the systemic barriers deterring access to eye health care in Australia, write Dr Gifar Hassan and Clinical Professor Leanne Rowe AM. For many years, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) and other eye health organisations have…


  • Issue 14 / 19 April 2022
    Boundary setting in general practice

    “The new meaning of ‘first do no harm’ includes a consideration of ourselves as well as our patients. This is not to be confused with selfishness or ‘looking out for number one’. It is about a long-term obligation to our own wellbeing, health and safety, which is essential for the competent…