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Gerard DiLeo, MD

About Gerard DiLeo, MD

Dr. Gerard DiLeo, physician and published women's health author for McGraw-Hill, is now writing full time after a career of over 30 years in private OBGYN practice in the New Orleans area. He has served twice as Chief-of-Staff at a major regional hospital and 5 years in academics as Director of the Division of Pelvic Pain in the Dept. of OBGYN at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He is an accomplished minimally invasive surgeon, laparoscopist, and an inventor (the catheter-stethoscope--U.S. Patent). He and his family live their post-Katrina life in Florida. He can be reached at drdileo@gmail.com.

Today’s Career Choices in Medicine: Chaotic Systems

By Gerard DiLeo, MD - March 6, 2018

What do you want to be when you grow up? Almost no one ends up being the type of doctor he or she was at the beginning. Private practice physicians end up as hospitalists, soloists end up in large groups,

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Today’s Career Choices in Medicine: Chaotic Systems

Is Private Practice for You?

By Gerard DiLeo, MD - March 27, 2018

As both Tom Petty sang and Mel Brooks depicted on screen, “It’s good to be the king.” As the sole proprietor of your own private practice, you really are the king. You embark on building your own empire. Of course, sometimes kings end up with their heads cut off.

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How to Choose Between Physician Practice Models

By Gerard DiLeo, MD - April 10, 2018

In deciding which way you might want to practice medicine, you have to make the best decision based on the information you have in the present, and have the foresight to know that the information will be different later on.

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How to Choose Between Physician Practice Models

Pros & Cons of Joining a Large Group Practice

By Gerard DiLeo, MD - April 19, 2018

In the final tally of things, the large group may take away the sovereignty you would enjoy in solo practice, but in return it gives you a better learning experience, associates to save your butt when you get into a jam, and a shared, diluted load of the business chores.

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Pros and Cons of Joining a Large Group Practice

Benefits of Joining a Multi-Specialty Group Practice

By Gerard DiLeo, MD - May 8, 2018

A new construct that takes the “smaller town” motif to the next level is the large multi-specialty group. In this, there is a group of doctors of each specialty practicing under a much larger, shared overhead of a constellation of specialty groups. It has all of the good features of the large single-specialty group in that there is help and assistance within your specialty, decreased costs of practicing (translated, higher net income), and you’re never at the mercy of someone calling in sick—even if it’s you.

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Benefits of Joining a Multi-Specialty Group Practice

I Now Pronounce You Doctor & Doctor - Partnership Practices

By Gerard DiLeo, MD - May 29, 2018

Don’t fool yourself. A medical partnership is indeed a marriage, so some caveats are in order before “marrying” into that partnership.

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I Now Pronounce You Doctor & Doctor - Partnership Practices

A Medical Doctor's First Day

By Gerard DiLeo, MD - June 5, 2018

The ink on your graduation diploma isn’t even dry yet. It is 6:59 AM on July 1, a minute before 7 AM on the day all shiny, new doctors begin working as real doctors for the first time.

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A Medical Doctor's First Day

Physician Practice Models - The Hospitalist

By Gerard DiLeo, MD - June 12, 2018

Finishing your training is “transitioning” to a life vastly different from the one you’re leaving. While the specialty of Hospital Medicine is one of the many choices available to you, the life of a hospitalist, like Hotel California, can be Heaven or it can be Hell.

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Physician Practice Models - The Hospitalist

Medical Research as a Career

By Gerard DiLeo, MD - July 5, 2018

Of all the ways one can practice medicine, one of the most fulfilling is in research. Research medicine involves searching and re-searching for, as well as discovering, proving, and implementing, approaches

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Medical Research as a Career

Changing Times and Changing Minds – A Post for Future Physicians

By Gerard DiLeo, MD - August 21, 2018

In my dad’s time, I know he did hysterectomies, appendectomies, vein stripping, colon surgery, proctology, and many other things that just having his diploma and a knife qualified him for. True, it was a pretty good diploma as diplomas go, but today we know that you can’t know everything about everything.

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John L. DeLio, MD, circa 1949