Well, this is disturbing. A new report shows that the number of medical students opting to go into nephrology ? the specialty involving caring for kidneys ? is dropping, even as the need for such physicians is on the rise.
A paper published last evening in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology highlights a decline in the number of new doctors going into the field, and attributes it in part to the common perception that kidney doctors are overworked and underpaid. The paper features an illuminating selection of blog entries written by medical students; together they suggest that the lifestyle of a nephrologist holds little appeal to the new generation of doctors, who are represented as perhaps valuing a balanced lifestyle and sane work schedules more than their elders did.
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