What does MCV offer?
‘doctors caring for doctors’
Dr Leanne Rowe provides a health service for all medical practitioners, including doctors in training, registrars and international medical graduates:
- Routine preventive health care
- Medical follow-up
- Mental health care
- Referral to other specialists
Doctors may be more at risk of health problems than the general population because of sedentary lifestyles and inevitable stressors associated with medical practice. Annual preventive health checks are recommended for healthy Australians, but rarely undertaken by doctors themselves.
Many doctors have become more aware of the need to refrain from self diagnosis and self treatment. Others have requested more individual support at certain stages of their careers, including during their transition from medical student to doctor in training, throughout registrar training or while adjusting to a new environment as an international medical graduate.
However, only 25% of medical practitioners have their own GP. The current medical workplace shortage deters many doctors from taking time out of their busy practices to seek health care.
Leanne provides long consultations in comfortable confidential rooms in the Melbourne CBD to help overcome some of the barriers doctors experience when seeking their own health care.
Dr Leanne Rowe AM, MB BS, MD, Dip RACOG, FRACGP, FAICD has over 25 years experience as a rural general practitioner.
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