Anuradhika Kandula, MD

I strongly recommend to stay away from this doctor. It was the worst experience ever.
I will find out why my primary doctor recommended her. I went in for a thyroid nodule examination and a possible biopsy. Luckily she does not perform those on the first visit. I would not have trusted her!
I waited for her for about 45 minutes in a tiny, sad and not so clean patient room. Then her assistant showed up saying that she was going to fill in for her while she was with another patient. She asked me routine questions, listen to my heart bit with a stethoscope and examined my neck to check if she could feel my nodule. All this performed while I was sitting on a chair. I never made it to the examination table. She than left and came back 10 minutes later accompanied by Doctor Kandula. Her visit lasted about 8 minutes, in which she performed the exact same examination as her assistant. Then she briefly went through her assistant’s notes, crossed her arms while standing, and asked me if I had any questions. Her pose clearly communicated she was in a hurry and did not have any intention to sit down and patiently explain anything about thyroid nodules, how she would eventually perform a biopsy procedure, or what the outcomes of that procedure might foretell regarding my future prognosis or treatment.
Doctor Kandula treats her patients like NUMBERS not human beings!

I do not recommend her, she doesn’t seems to have good experience. Mainly she will give theoretical answers, which anyone can read from Wikipedia/​internet.
I kept asking whats the impact as per your experience and she kept saying studies show that this is the impact and that made me nervous.
Also, she doesn’t have answers to most of your questions, her best answers to all of your question would be «I don’t know».
We went for thyroid treatment.

I can confirm the comments from another reviewers — I too had a terrible experience. She seemed determined to treat me rudely, didn’t listen to anything I had to say — in fact she ignored and disregarded valuable patient history that I was telling her.
She seemed in a rush and did not spend longer than 8 minutes with me, even though I was a new patient at my very first appointment with her. :-/​
If you’re looking for someone to listen or spend a few moments to help with a diagnosis, I can unequivocally confirm that Dr Kandula would be a terrible choice. I was shocked by the quick, disrespectful and dismissive service.
After my appointment I went online to confirm her background. Turns out she wasn’t educated in the US — perhaps standards for bedside manner or creating a positive experience are different where she is from. Whatever the case, I hope this review helps someone make an informed decision before choosing their provider.

Dr. Kandula is an awesome endocrinologist.
About a year ago I moved back to bay area and my health condition was very bad, I saw Dr. Kandula because my diabetes was way out of control, after following her plan and medication now I am safe again. My diabetes is normal now and I lost weight thank you Dr. Kandula.