Suman Konda, PharmD

Something I see every week in practice: a patient walks in with a blood report, hands it to me, and says “the doctor said everything is fine but I don’t understand any of this.” Sometimes the doctor said nothing at all – they just got the results on an app. The paper has numbers, reference ranges, abbreviations. No explanation of what the test was even measuring, let alone what it means for them.

That gap is why HealthReview exists.

I’m a PharmD – a clinical pharmacist registered with the Telangana State Pharmacy Council. My day-to-day work is medicines: dosing, monitoring, drug interactions, counselling patients on what their labs mean for the treatment they are on. Blood test interpretation is a large part of that. The questions I write about here are the same ones that come up across the counter. There is no editorial team and no group of contributors. HealthReview is just me.

What I cover – and what I don’t

Pharmacy gives me solid ground on laboratory reference ranges, medication side effects, drug interactions, and therapeutic monitoring. Diagnosis is not that ground – it belongs to the physician who knows your full history. When a page here explains what elevated creatinine can indicate, it is explaining what the marker measures, not telling you what you have. I am careful about that distinction because blurring it would make this site less useful, not more.

I don’t write about surgical procedures, psychiatric assessment, or imaging. When condition pages appear here, they exist to give context to the tests that monitor those conditions, not to replace a consultation. I don’t interpret individual results, recommend doses for specific people, or sell anything. The site runs on advertising, which is disclosed, and it has no influence on what any article says.

Sources and corrections

Articles here start from PubMed and the NCBI Bookshelf, not from other health websites. Reference ranges are cross-checked against at least two laboratory sources because they genuinely vary between methods – a single universal number stated without caveats is often wrong, and I’d rather say “this depends” than pick a number that misleads half the people reading it.

If something here is clinically wrong, please use the contact page with the URL and, if you have it, the source you are working from. Corrections go on the page. Medical accuracy errors are dealt with first.

Professional history and registration: LinkedIn.

Everything on this site is educational and is not a substitute for advice from the clinician treating you. See the medical disclaimer and the editorial policy.