We recently chose to use Dr. Baldassarri as our primary family care doctor, big mistake! Our eldest daughter (6) has food allergies, and recently had what appeared to be a transient reaction to something else - that we could not identify. Thus, we made an appt with Dr. Baldassarri to get her checked on. The earliest appointment was 3 weeks out. Fortunately her problem went away on its own. Regardless, we thought it may be time for a new round of allergy testing. So, we went ahead with the appt. As it turned out, our younger daughter (3) had a bad fever the night prior to our elder daughters appt. She was also coughing like she had a chest infection. When we checked in for our elder daughter, I told the receptionist I would like our younger daughter checked also - without concern if there may have been a charge. The receptionist indicated it probably would not be a problem, and just to ask the Dr. when we saw him. As it turned out, near the end our time with him "evaluating our elder daughter" I mentioned the younger daughter's illness. To which he said (sitting right in front of our younger, sick daughter) "It's probably like a virus or something, you would need to get an appointment and paperwork and come back in" Seriously? 3 weeks out on new appointments. You won't take 2 minutes to look over my sick daughter - who WAS also to be a patient of his? You are kidding right? It gets worse: Knowing that he was also on staff at the local Mediquik and according to him, would be there the following day (Saturday), I decided to give him another chance - and go through the proper channels to have my younger daughter looked at (even though I tried that at his regular office the day prior). So, we brought her to Mediquick to see him - and attempt some continuum (since he was her primary). As it turned out, I also needed to discuss something very important with him that was more clerical in nature - regarding my specific records from previous visits to Mediquick. Thus, I tried to make it a dual appointment (again, willing to pay for both myself and my daughter) as it was CRITICAL that I have this discussion with him. After explaining this to the short and snippy receptionist (Mediquick), she went back and spoke with Dr. Baldassarri. When she came back, she informed me that he would see my daughter, but would not speak with me about the important issue that needed a grand total of 3 minutes worth of discussion. Absolutely unprofessional on all counts. At this point I formulated a very negative opinion of Dr. Baldassarri. So, we walked out. His character and integrity are severely lacking. I would not recommend this self-righteous doctor to anyone. He has lost our respect and trust entirely. The ironic thing is, he probably does not even care that he lost patients. Perhaps others have had good experiences? Ours was anything but... Never again! read more

In general, I am very skeptical about doctors and try to avoid doctors as much as possible. I believe that while there is a gigantic technological progress, doctors more and more operate just as business people. But Dr. Gerardo Baldassari is one of exceptions. I visited his office two times so far. In my opinion, by all performance criteria, doctor, his office, and staff are excellent. read more

In my ongoing effort to spread the usefulness of Yelp here in Palm Coast, I decided to check out the rating of my own doctor, the great Gerardo Baldassarri, MD, who I found over one year ago when I first came here from NY. Finding a doctor here in Central Florida, then and now, is very difficult because there are no Yelp ratings for any physicians here. Go figure. As a result, it took me close to one month to check out personal referrals, chit chats with pharmacists, internet searches and actual appointments with several doctors who were on my "maybe" list. Here were the most predominant problems: sketchy hospital affiliations, low tier medical school backgrounds and complaints from ex-patients. Dr. Baldassarri was recommended to me by one pharmacist who basically said that he had never heard anything negative about him. Thus, I made my first appointment figuring I could continue looking if it did not go well. I am so happy to report that not only is Dr. B someone who you would never, ever find anything negative to say about, but he is up there with the best doctors that I have been fortunate enough to have been a patient of. Yes, its true. I am one of those people who share the opinion that the world consists of two places: NY and every where else. So, when it comes to someone to be responsible for my life/death, I am a bit fussy since I am so far away from NY. Happy to report that Dr. B is a doctor's doctor if you follow my drift. He is also a med school professor. I am further happy to report that when I arrived here, I was overweight, on several medications for serious high blood pressure and felt and looked just plain fat and old. Dr. B never nagged me but gently suggested that a lifestyle change might help. Over the past year, I followed his advice. Today, I am 40 pounds lighter, blood pressure meds free and feel terrific. I came down here with a severe vitamin D deficiency so bad that I had to get injections of Vitamin D. Now, I live at the beach and swim 3 miles in a good week. My vitamin D level is just fine..thank you very much! Did Dr. B do all of this? Yes and No. He never forced me to change my lifestyle, nor did he condescend, but I knew he was very concerned about my health since he kept trying new meds on me every few weeks. Simultaneously, however, he strongly suggested I work with him on my lifestyle, make some changes and take a bit of responsibility for myself. Slowly I did. I have him to thank for keeping me alive while I did that. His staff is equally awesome, professional and welcoming. He is part of a group but I have never had occasion to see any of the other doctors. I was lucky to find him. Hope this helps others in their search. read more