Dr. Rao is a physician with over two decades of clinical experience across cardiovascular care, internal medicine, and patient treatment planning. His work spans medications, treatment protocols, and how therapies are applied in real-world settings. He has worked with patients managing a wide range of chronic and acute conditions, giving him a broad perspective on care. His writing focuses on helping patients understand treatment options and make informed decisions.
There is an old and melancholy habit in medicine: the habit of arriving too late. The physician has too often been summoned not to prevent a storm, but to survey the wreckage it has left behind. Cancer, that ancient and…
A practical checklist for weighing surgical benefits, risks, alternatives, timing, second opinions, and the realities of recovery.
The problem with multiple prescriptions is not a number alone. Duplicate effects, prescribing cascades, age-related changes, cost, transitions of care, and regimen burden all determine safety.
Chronic stress reaches the heart through repeated blood-pressure elevation, disrupted sleep, metabolic and inflammatory changes, and the daily behaviors that become harder under sustained pressure.
Common medications can remain useful for years, but their doses, interactions, and monitoring needs can change. A careful review can find avoidable risks without turning into an unsafe abrupt stop.
LDL cholesterol remains important, but ApoB, lipoprotein(a), non-HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, and selective coronary calcium testing can show risk that a standard lipid panel misses.
