Nephrology vs Neurology

Nephrology and neurology are two different fields of medicine. Lets discuss whats the difference between the same and which has a better scope in India?

5.5K Views|Posted 2015-10-07 12:25:26
Started by Sudhanshu Singh
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7 years ago
In my mind I would suggest you to have the best of the choice you have that is neurology why? I will explain cause nephrology is a study everyone knows about that and it's a good specialisation but when you think about the neurology then that's where is the main thing is to be dug out it is deep ful

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Sakshi Goyal
2015-10-07 13:09:15
I think the scope of both the fields are almost equivalent because both deals with the most important parts of a human body. It might be the case the that number of cases relating to kidney disorders are less as compared to the nervous system but both the streams have good scope in India.

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Joy Barua
2015-10-07 12:44:19
Scope of Neurology is higher than the scope of Nephrology. Even though both areas come under the field of Medicine, each of these areas is related to different parts in human body. As Neurology studies about the most important part of Human body, it has more scope than Nephrology.

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shruti sharma
2015-10-07 12:53:45
I agree with your view point joy. Neurons form the most important component of a human body because they are responsible for every physical or sensory activity in a human. Hence the scope of neurology is definitely more as compared to nephrology.

Paras Singh
2015-10-07 12:27:27
HI Neurology is a medical specialty which deals with the study of nervous system. Nephrology is a division of Internal Medicine which deals with the study of kidney and its functions.

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