What pathologist donors give in federal races

A wide specialty pool under $5.3M

$5,296,631 is the occupation-level dollar total. 16,205 is the itemization count. 1,610 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $327 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $3,290 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 10 itemizations per donor record.

1,610 donor records is a wide specialty pool: more people than many surgical strings with similar dollars, and more donor records than contribution-heavy assistant titles in this slice. Ten itemizations per donor record is a moderate repeat rate. Mean dollars per donor record sit toward the modest side among physician-title strings.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no anatomic-versus-clinical split, and no party series. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

Pathologist is not physician and not a board list

PHYSICIAN, MD, and LABORATORY DIRECTOR are neighboring occupation pages with their own facts. This page covers PATHOLOGIST only: $5,296,631, 16,205 contributions, and 1,610 donors. Mixing them would invent a combined medical total the packet does not contain.

FEC Form 3 and Form 3X collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of specialties and no ABP board check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals PATHOLOGIST after indexing. FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST and DERMATOPATHOLOGIST remain other keys unless the extract normalized them here.

What 1,610 donor records can and cannot show

1,610 donor records used PATHOLOGIST on at least one matching itemization. That is not a membership list from a pathology society. Retired specialists and forms filled with a spouse’s title can appear. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

A person who listed PATHOLOGIST on some gifts and PHYSICIAN on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. The 10-line repeat rate is a property of matching text, not proof that 1,610 unique people each gave 10 times.

Keep health-sector industry tables separate

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. A pathologist in a hospital lab and one in a private group share this occupation string if they typed PATHOLOGIST. Adding $5,296,631 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the PATHOLOGIST 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 $5,296,631.

How to cite the pathologist key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: PATHOLOGIST itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,296,631 on 16,205 contributions from 1,610 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 published on FEC.gov. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Do not treat the total as a census of practicing pathologists. Compact millions ($5.3M) are the same headline amount as $5,296,631, rounded to one decimal place.

Treating PATHOLOGIST as typed specialty text

PATHOLOGIST in this extract is $5,296,631 on 16,205 itemizations from 1,610 donor records, or $5.3M 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.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $327 per contribution and about $3,290 per donor record, with roughly 10 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. PHYSICIAN, MD, and LABORATORY DIRECTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to PATHOLOGIST. 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 $5,296,631. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals PATHOLOGIST, dollars equal $5,296,631, contributions equal 16,205, donors equal 1,610. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

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. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the wide donor pool behind PATHOLOGIST. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have pathologist donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list PATHOLOGIST sum to $5,296,631, or $5.3M, across 16,205 contributions and 1,610 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.

Are physicians included in the pathologist total?

No. PHYSICIAN is a separate occupation string. This page covers PATHOLOGIST only: $5,296,631, 16,205 contributions, and 1,610 donors. Mixing them would invent a combined medical total the packet does not contain. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data.

Does the FEC confirm pathology board credentials?

No. Occupation is self-reported. A specialty word on Schedule A is not a credential check. Treat the 1,610 donor records as a count of matching text, not a board roster. The indexed sum remains $5,296,631. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Where do I review individual pathologist gifts?

The PATHOLOGIST occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $5,296,631. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.