nephrology

For example, in my region a single nephrology practice controls 90% of the business in that speciality.

You can bet your ass that if there’s a transplant that radically improves outcomes, nephrology will be all for it.

It’s a generally garbage approach if your goal is to make money, nephrology included.

You cant just compete, the Nephrology Board has to approve these standards of practice.

Now it starts getting tricky with any serious comorbidities and luckily we have nephrology to manage electrolytes.

My nephrology professor said there are two camps: the clumpers and splitters.

The happy stories in nephrology are the people who get kidney transplants, but then you're only trading one disease for another: kidney failure for chronic immuno-suppression.

I go to my local hospital which has a pretty large nephrology department.

Slightly off topic: what prompted you to leave nephrology?

Others are becoming better facilitated (cardiology, nephrology).

Alawieh’s area of specialty, transplant nephrology.

AMA is not the main culprit in supply of doctor's, that would be available spots for residents (and further downstream, available slots for sub-specialties e.g., pediatric nephrology; pulmonary critical care).

You cant just compete, the Nephrology Board has to approve these standards of practice The “Nephrology Board” is only one country.

From the article: "Instead of his usual fare of nephrology and diabetes papers, Johnson began to pore over global maps of climate and solar radiation.

Physicians are disposable too, look at what happened with primary care, nephrology, anesthesia and is starting in radiology where private equity firms move in and outsource physician care to allied health professions and create an “eat what you kill environment”.