Call of Duty: Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Emergency Physician Leo Rodriguez
Battlefield to bedside Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center physician Leo Rodriquez applies his military training to emergency room operations by Chelsea Sektnan Leo Rodriguez, an emergency physician at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance, took an unconventional route to his medical career. He was born in Queens, New York, in 1973 to Uruguayan immigrants. After his father died of colon cancer, his mother, Sylvia, worked multiple jobs to support Rodriguez and his two siblings. School was a challenge for Rodriguez, he graduated from high school with a 1.4 GPA. “I didn’t know how to study. I didn’t have discipline,” Rodriguez said. “It felt like my options were getting into trouble and finding a way out.” His mother, who remarried to Steven Becker, recalled her frustration during Rodriguez’s high school years. “By the time he graduated high school, we didn’t know what to do with him. So we sent him to a military prep school in Newport, Rhode Island,” Becker said. “He was working at a pizza place and treating school like a social event. But he had a personality everyone loved.” That magnetic personality shone through even as a child. At age 5…
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