Acceptance of these terms
These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of this website, which is the personal professional website of Dr. Gogineni Ratnakara Rao. By opening, browsing or otherwise using any page of this site, you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to these terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Medical Disclaimer, all of which form a single agreement.
If you do not accept any part of these terms, please stop using the website. If you are using the site on behalf of another person, such as a parent, guardian or attendant, you confirm that you are authorised to do so and that you accept these terms on their behalf.
Purpose and nature of the website
This website exists to share the qualifications, clinical interests and consultation details of Dr. Gogineni Ratnakara Rao, and to provide general educational material about respiratory conditions and pulmonary procedures. It is informational in character and is not an advertisement, solicitation or inducement to seek treatment, and it makes no claim of superiority, guaranteed outcome or comparative ranking of any kind.
Content is prepared with care and is based on accepted clinical practice at the time of writing. Medicine changes, however, and pages may not reflect the most recent guideline, drug approval or regulatory position at the moment you read them. Content is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranty of completeness, accuracy, currency or fitness for a particular purpose.
No doctor-patient relationship
Reading this website, sending a message through WhatsApp, calling the published number to ask a question, or interacting with a social media post does not create a doctor-patient relationship. Such a relationship is established only when you are seen in person for a consultation, or through a formally arranged teleconsultation conducted in accordance with the applicable telemedicine practice guidelines, where a clinical history is taken and a record is created.
No prescription, dosage change, medical certificate, fitness certificate, second opinion or interpretation of a report will be issued on the basis of website content or an informal message. Any general information given in response to an enquiry is not a diagnosis and must not be treated as one.
Appointments, timings and communication
Consultation timings, location details and contact numbers shown on this website are published in good faith but may change without notice. Appointment slots are managed by the hospital, and availability, fees, billing, insurance and cancellation are governed entirely by the hospital's own policies and not by this website.
Booking links on this site take you to the hospital's own platform, where its terms apply. Please confirm the current timing and location before travelling, particularly if you are coming from outside Hyderabad.
Messages sent by WhatsApp or left as voicemail are answered during working hours and cannot be monitored continuously. This website and its contact channels must never be used to report an emergency. If you have severe breathlessness, chest pain, significant coughing of blood, blue discoloration of the lips, confusion or collapse, go to the nearest emergency department immediately or call emergency services.
Intellectual property
All content on this website, including text, page structure, layout, styling, graphics, photographs and video links, is the property of Dr. Gogineni Ratnakara Rao or is used with permission, and is protected by Indian and international copyright law.
You may read, print and share individual pages for personal, non-commercial use, and you may link to any page of this site provided the link is not presented in a misleading way. You may not copy, republish, translate, adapt, sell, or incorporate the content into another website, application, brochure, training material or artificial intelligence training corpus, and you may not present the content as your own or as that of another clinician or institution, without prior written permission.
The names, logos and trademarks of hospitals, platforms and organisations referred to on this website belong to their respective owners and are used only for identification and reference.
Acceptable use
You agree not to use this website in any way that is unlawful or that could damage, disable or impair it. In particular you agree not to:
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, its server or any connected system.
- Introduce viruses, malware or any other harmful code.
- Use automated scraping, crawling or harvesting tools that place an unreasonable load on the server.
- Impersonate the doctor, the clinic or any hospital, or create a page or profile that could be mistaken for an official one.
- Use the contact details published here for unsolicited marketing, spam or bulk messaging.
- Post defamatory, obscene or misleading material referring to this website or its content elsewhere.
Limitation of liability and external links
To the fullest extent permitted by law, no liability is accepted for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, arising from reliance on the general information published on this website, from any action taken or not taken on the basis of it, or from any inability to access the site. Reliance on any information here is solely at your own risk, and clinical decisions must be based on a personal consultation.
This website links to external websites and platforms, including the hospital's booking page, Google Maps, Google Business Profile, WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Those sites are not under our control. A link does not imply endorsement of the destination's content, products, services or opinions, and no responsibility is accepted for them.
Reasonable efforts are made to keep the site available and free of harmful code, but continuous, error-free and uninterrupted access cannot be guaranteed, and no liability is accepted for interruption, data loss or damage to your device arising from use of the site.
Governing law, changes and contact
These terms are governed by the laws of India. Any dispute arising out of or relating to this website or these terms is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts at Hyderabad, Telangana.
Professional conduct is governed by the regulations of the National Medical Commission and the relevant State Medical Council, and nothing on this website is intended to conflict with them. If any provision of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force.
These terms may be revised at any time. The version published on this page is the one in force, and continued use of the website after a revision constitutes acceptance of it. For any question about these terms, contact the clinic on +91 74164 43331 or by WhatsApp.
Last updated: 10 September 2026.