What emergency physician donors give in federal races

High line volume under a $6.9 million headline

$6,913,516 is the occupation-level dollar total. 26,700 is the itemization count. 2,149 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $259 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $3,217 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 12 itemizations per donor record. Among occupation strings near this dollar band, EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN is a high-volume medical key: many lines and more than two thousand donor records, not a handful of large checks.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $259 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Twenty-six thousand seven hundred lines from 2,149 donor records is a wide pool relative to C-suite strings that post similar dollars on a few thousand receipts. Frequency and dollar size are different dimensions; this bucket is heavier on line count than on dollars per line.

Specialty text is not a medical-board list

EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN is a specialty label, not a generic PHYSICIAN bucket. Rows tagged ER PHYSICIAN, EMERGENCY MEDICINE, or PHYSICIAN do not join this total unless the occupation field is exactly EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN after indexing. Nearby spellings—emergency medicine physician, ER doctor, emergency room physician—remain other occupation pages if they appear in the bulk file.

What 2,149 donor records can and cannot show

2,149 donor records used EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN on at least one matching itemization. That is not a headcount of board-certified emergency physicians in the United States. Retired clinicians, fellows, and people whose forms were filled with a spouse’s title can all appear. The FEC record does not flag those cases.

A person who listed EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

Keep hospital industry tables on a separate cut

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. An emergency physician at a hospital system and one at a contract staffing group share this occupation string if they typed EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN, while landing in different industry buckets. Adding $6,913,516 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $6,913,516.

How to cite the emergency physician key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $6,913,516 on 26,700 contributions from 2,149 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Do not read the total as a statement about emergency-department policy or as a count of attending physicians.

Treating EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN as typed text in a bulk file

EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN in this extract is $6,913,516 on 26,700 itemizations from 2,149 donor records, or $6.9 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. A medical board can list who may practice emergency medicine. FEC itemizations cannot. They list whoever typed EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN on the occupation line. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a licensing roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $259 per contribution and about $3,217 per donor record, with roughly 12 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Nearby spellings—emergency medicine physician, ER doctor, emergency room physician—remain other occupation pages if they appear in the bulk file. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $6,913,516. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN, dollars equal $6,913,516, contributions equal 26,700, donors equal 2,149.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($6.9 million) are the same headline amount as $6,913,516, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the shape of EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have emergency physician donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN sum to $6,913,516 across 26,700 contributions and 2,149 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does the FEC verify that donors are licensed emergency physicians?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not check board certification. EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN itemizations still sum to $6,913,516 from 26,700 contributions and 2,149 donor records. Quote those three facts; do not treat them as a specialty census.

Why are there more contributions than donors?

The file has 26,700 itemized lines and 2,149 donor records, about 12 lines per record. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and earmarks each create rows. Dividing $6,913,516 by lines yields about $259 per contribution, a mean rather than a typical check.

Are other emergency-medicine titles included?

Only if the occupation field equals EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN. Related titles are separate keys. This page covers $6,913,516, 26,700 contributions, and 2,149 donors for this exact string. Mixing keys without naming each source total changes the unit. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.