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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?

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Dialysis and transplant patients, because of their prolonged hospital contact and predisposition to infection, are prone to development of antibiotic resistant infections. Further, renal injury is a common complication of sepsis and antibiotic therapy. For this reason, combined training and experience in nephrology and infectious disease is not without its benefits. Medgeek (talk) 06:08, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

I noticed this article gets a bit for Gregory House vandalism. Over at Talk:Gregory_House#Georg_Haas.3F, an IP left the most bizarre comment. He basically casually mentioned how he just vandalized this article and now wanted to ask a stupid question. What went through his head? Deamon138 (talk) 21:57, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

I agree the articles should be merged.BillpSea (talk) 19:46, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I also agree. King Spook 09:48, 28 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kngspook (talk • contribs)

History

I had been hoping to see some history of the development of Nephrology. When was the small-scale structure of the kidney, e.g. the glomerulus, the proximal and distal convoluted tubes, and the loop of Henle discovered? I suppose, I could look up Henle and Bowman for when they did their work, but I think that some of that should appear here, and that would be only part of the story. Sterrettc (talk) 01:31, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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 : 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 [[User:BillpSea|BillpSea]] ([[User talk:BillpSea|talk]]) 02:44, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
+: Dialysis and transplant patients, because of their prolonged hospital contact and predisposition to infection, are prone to development of antibiotic resistant infections. Further, renal injury is a common complication of sepsis and antibiotic therapy. For this reason, combined training and experience in nephrology and infectious disease is not without its benefits. [[User:Medgeek|Medgeek]] ([[User talk:Medgeek|talk]]) 06:08, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
 The vandalism is from two IPs, both of whom have liberally exceeded the [[WP:3RR|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. [[User:Jfdwolff|JFW]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[User_talk:Jfdwolff|<small>T@lk</small>]] 08:52, 16 December 2007 (UTC)