I Love Nephrology, but Should I Be a Nephrologist?

“Just follow your heart, do what makes you happy” is the unsolicited career guidance that medical trainees will receive by almost everyone they come across. Happiness is the ultimate goal when it comes to making career decisions, right? I am a postdoctoral researcher interested in kidney disease, with the majority of my research focusing on outcomes of AKI. If I decide to pursue nephrology down the road, do I really know what I’ll be getting...