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Island business UpClose
MEDICAL OFFICE IS A FAMILY AFFAIR
-By Bart Horowitz-
If it's good medicine for a family to be close, and it's sensible that it should be, then the Silich family is getting a healthy dose - and countless numbers of other are benefiting.
Dr. Robert J. Silich, a general surgeon in practice since 1974, has moved his Sunnyside office to 1557 Victory Blvd., Castleton Corners, where he now delights in working alongside his family.
"The most beautiful part of the office," Dr. Silich said, "is that my two sons and wife are working here. … It’s a family affair and nothing could be better than this."
The surgeon’s son, Dr. Robert Christopher Silich, a plastic surgeon, whose private practice was inaugurated earlier this year at his other office, in Manhattan, share’s his father’s sentiments. "We’ve always done everything together," he said of the family. "Now that we’re all under the same roof, it’s just great. … It’s not only good for us, but the other families – the patients – get a lot out of it too."
The impressive-looking corner house also is where the general surgeon’s wife, Dianne, a registered nurse, spends her workdays assisting her husband, and their youngest son, attorney Stephan Silich, manages his brother’s medical office and business affairs.
The Silich family’s gravitation to medicine – and it’s tradition of working together – began shortly after WWII when the elder physician’s father, the late Dr. Robert L. Silich, established himself as a general practitioner in Weehawken, N.J., with his wife, Greta, a registered nurse, at his side. Years later, the elder Mrs. Silich’s nursing skills proved valuable to her son’s medical practice, re-enforcing the commitment to family and strengthening the bonds that now link the three generations.
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