Steven Jay Block

Dr. Block obtained his medical degree from BUSM, his medical internship at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, his specialty training in general medicine at a UCLA-affiliated program and his subspecialty training in cardiology at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He moved to Lodi California in 1976, where he updated the intensive care unit at Lodi Community Hospital. He later established the Lodi Heart Center, where he continues his solo practice in cardiology. His more than...See more

Dr. Block obtained his medical degree from BUSM, his medical internship at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, his specialty training in general medicine at a UCLA-affiliated program and his subspecialty training in cardiology at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He moved to Lodi California in 1976, where he updated the intensive care unit at Lodi Community Hospital. He later established the Lodi Heart Center, where he continues his solo practice in cardiology. His more than forty years in the practice of medicine in both urban and rural environments has granted him a unique prospective, allowing him to appreciate the gradual, but inexorable decline in patient care as special interest groups have captured and dominated the politics on both sides of the aisle. See less