Self/Physician as FEC employer text: $7.4 million

A slash that FEC software stored as one key

Some filers type SELF-EMPLOYED in one box and physician in the other. Some mash both into the employer field as Self/Physician. LobbyVault ranks the grouped mash. The $7,384,731 total is those itemized gifts. It is not a census of solo practices and not every self-employed clinician in the file.

Donors who typed PHYSICIAN, MEDICAL DOCTOR, MD, DOCTOR, SELF-EMPLOYED, or Self-Employed/Attorney sit in other rows. Capitalization and the slash are part of the stored key. LobbyVault does not normalize Self/Physician into PHYSICIAN.

The slash is literal. Self Physician without the slash, if stored, is another key. LobbyVault does not treat punctuation as noise. Researchers who normalize clinician strings must do that after export.

1,769 donors — more people, fewer lines than some clinic rows

1,769 unique donors produced 16,708 Self/Physician contribution lines totaling $7,384,731. That is on the order of 9 itemized receipts per donor, a thinner line density than UCLA’s campus acronym or UNITED AIRLINES’ payroll-style volume. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a specialty split.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and medical-association committee filings are outside the $7,384,731 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.

1,769 unique donors is a large person count relative to the 16,708 lines. Many people, fewer repeats than a payroll PAC-style row. That is a description of the grouped file, not of practice economics.

Physician, MD, and self-employed attorney siblings

PHYSICIAN, MEDICAL DOCTOR, MD, DOCTOR, SELF-EMPLOYED, and Self Employed/Attorney are separate strings. Combining them with Self/Physician would mix distinct FEC fields. This page reports $7,384,731 for Self/Physician only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside this combo or beside a clinic name. DENTIST and PHARMACIST remain other employer-box titles when those words were typed instead.

Self/Physician is not Self Employed/Attorney. The clinician slash combo’s $7,384,731 from 1,769 donors and 16,708 lines stays on this page. Lawyer punctuation variants belong on those other guides.

Donor table

The Self/Physician donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a practice valuation, a Medicare billing pattern, or a motive to that line. The FEC field is not a medical-board roster.

Repeat names are expected among 16,708 lines from 1,769 people. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the slash string.

Self/Physician on the donor table is the slash string as stored, including capitalization from the packet. It is not a medical-board roster of 1,769 solo practices. If a later receipt used PHYSICIAN alone, that later line is not in the $7,384,731. Use occupation pages for titles stored beside a clinic name.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $7,384,731, 16,708 contributions, 1,769 donors, top employer Self/Physician. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare PHYSICIAN, MEDICAL DOCTOR, and SELF-EMPLOYED on the industry index. Use occupation breakdowns for titles next to this string.

Slash strings are not a recode of PHYSICIAN

Self/Physician is stored with that slash. PHYSICIAN, MEDICAL DOCTOR, MD, DOCTOR, and SELF-EMPLOYED are other keys. The $7,384,731 total from 1,769 donors and 16,708 lines is only this combo. Treating it as all solo clinicians would ignore people who typed a clinic name or a spelled-out title.

Self Employed/Attorney is a lawyer combo, not a clinician synonym. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and medical-association PAC documents stay outside the $7,384,731 unless an individual receipt carries Self/Physician.

Read the donor table for disclosed recipients. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the slash string. Occupation pages show titles stored beside this combo or beside a named practice. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS office-based physician total.

Keep Self/Physician’s $7,384,731, 16,708 contributions, and 1,769 donors on this slash combo. PHYSICIAN, MEDICAL DOCTOR, and SELF-EMPLOYED stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside this combo. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a NAICS physician-office total.

Questions

How much have Self/Physician-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $7,384,731 to the Self/Physician employer string, from 16,708 contributions and 1,769 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a hospital PAC and not a NAICS physician-office total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is Self/Physician the same as PHYSICIAN or SELF-EMPLOYED?

No. PHYSICIAN, MEDICAL DOCTOR, MD, and SELF-EMPLOYED are separate grouped strings. The $7,384,731 total is only receipts whose employer text grouped to Self/Physician, including the slash. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts are omitted.

Does this include Self Employed/Attorney donors?

No. Self Employed/Attorney is a different combo string with its own guide. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text Self/Physician. Lawyers who used the attorney variant are not in these 1,769 donors. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed Self/Physician?

The rollup counts 1,769 donors and 16,708 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a headcount of solo medical practices. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.