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[edit] Nephrology
Please I need some answers for my questions
1)What are nephrologist's duties & responsibilities?
2)How is nephrology expected to change?
3)Any new developments ocurring?
4)Any important research being done?
5)What career or job opportunities are there in this field ?
6)What is the relevance or importance of this specialty to the world?
sent me: [REMOVED]
[edit] TV Nephrologists
Instead of having to delete a certain TV character every few days maybe there should be a popular culture section?
Popular culture
Actor Hugh Laurie portrays a nephrologist on the fictional TV show House. BillpSea 01:26, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
- In addition to fictional doctors a popular culture section could address renal myths - for instance the "stolen kidney" plot line, the "will die without a transplant" plot line.
No, I think even in House MD the main character is not famous for being a nephrologist but for being a "diagnostician" (whatever that silly term means). (It is also very odd to combine renal medicine with infectious diseases in one career - unless he wanted to spend his whole life treating pyelonephritis). JFW | T@lk 21:08, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
- Those are compelling reasons to continue the exclusion of that particular TV character. Thanks JFW. The lack of comment in defense by the vandals is also telling BillpSea (talk) 02:44, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
The vandalism is from two IPs, both of whom have liberally exceeded the 3RR rule. I have locked the article for four days and blocked both House fans for three. I have asked them to discuss their addition here before attempting to reinsert it against consensus. JFW | T@lk 08:52, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge with Nephrologist
I just stumbled across Nephrologist, and it seems to be the only article about a specialized physician. All other specialists (-ist) redirect to the article of the specialty (-ology). I do not think there needs to be separate articles for the physician and the specialty. Nephrologist is short, and could easily be merged with nephrology. --Scott Alter 16:04, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
