Orthopaedic Surgeon donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Orthopaedic Surgeon as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $1,500,866, 2,312 contributions, and 1,417 donors. 2008 is a high-row presidential-year cell on a British-spelling surgical title. The occupation hub rolls every cycle that used this spelling. The 2008 election-cycle hub rolls every occupation that filed that cycle. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

Orthopaedic Surgeon is a British-spelling surgical title as typed, not a board roster. Nearby strings — ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, SURGEON, ORTHOPEDIST, and PHYSICIAN — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $1,500,866 or $15,862,739. A surgeon who wrote Physician or the -edic spelling is outside this cell.

2008’s dollar share is 9.5% ($1,500,866 of $15,862,739). The remainder sits in other cycles on the occupation hub and is not itemized by year on this packet. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $1,500,866.

The Orthopaedic Surgeon string across cycles

Under the exact label ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON, harvested individual contributions sum to $15.9 million ($15,862,739). The 2008 cell is 9.5% of that occupation total. The FEC file does not verify ABOS certification or a medical license. A share in a presidential cycle is a slice, not proof that the remaining dollars sat in any particular other year. Those other years are not in this packet.

Orthopaedic Surgeon is not a hospital department, a device-maker PAC, or a CMS specialty code. Open Orthopaedic Surgeon donations for the $15,862,739 roll. Open the 2008 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures.

2008 receipts and donors

Inside the 2008 cell, 2,312 itemized contributions map to 1,417 donors. That is about 1.6 receipts per donor in the join — a repeat-gift ratio, not a unique-person survey of everyone who holds a similar job. Dollars per receipt average about $649; dollars per donor average about $1,059. Averages hide large and small lines sitting in the same total.

Presidential-year volume can mix primary, general, and other receipts dated to 2008. This packet does not split $1,500,866 by those stages or by party. The 2008 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the Orthopaedic Surgeon row. 1,417 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2008, not a turnout figure.

How to read the two dollar columns

Keep $1,500,866 attached to 2008 and $15,862,739 attached to the occupation string. Adding them would double-count the 2008 dollars that already sit inside the occupation total. Subtracting them does not yield “all other cycles”; it only yields a remainder that this packet does not itemize by year.

Cite FEC.gov. Individual contributions are not PAC independent expenditures and not lobbying registrations. Nothing in the join says donations paid for a federal award, a research grant, or a USAspending obligation. Quote $1,500,866 with both nouns: Orthopaedic Surgeon and 2008.

What the Orthopaedic Surgeon–2008 join does not claim

Occupation labels are filer-entered. Orthopaedic Surgeon is not a hospital department, a device-maker PAC, or a CMS specialty code. A person who wrote a nearby title is not in $1.5 million. A person who wrote this string is in it even if the day job differs. LobbyVault does not audit licenses. The public record is the string plus the dollars.

No motive, no vote, no ranking of occupations. Not a board-certification extract, not a hospital-privilege census, and not an AAOS roll. Use All occupations to compare other labels; use All FEC ties for other joins. 2,312 receipts and 1,417 donors are the volume facts for this join.

Questions

How much did orthopaedic surgeons donate in 2008?

Filers who wrote Orthopaedic Surgeon on FEC individual contribution records itemized $1,500,866 in the 2008 cycle, across 2,312 receipts from 1,417 donors. That cell is 9.5% of $15,862,739 harvested under the same exact occupation string. Nearby spellings are counted on other occupation pages.

Are orthopaedic surgeon labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. Orthopaedic Surgeon uses the ae spelling. Orthopedic Surgeon, Orthopedist, and Physician are other keys. This join does not recode titles into a medical-board specialty or merge the American spelling. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Orthopaedic Surgeon in 2008 is $1,500,866 on 2,312 receipts from 1,417 donors.

What is an occupation-cycle join on LobbyVault?

It is the overlap of one self-reported occupation key and one even-numbered FEC cycle. The occupation hub holds $15.9 million for this string across cycles. The cycle hub holds every occupation that filed in 2008. This page reports only the overlapping cell, $1.5 million, so the two dimensions are not restated as one table.

Does the 2008 Orthopaedic Surgeon total include PACs or party committees?

$1,500,866 is an aggregate of individual contributions whose occupation field matches this string. It is not PAC independent spending, not committee-to-committee transfers, and not a party split. This packet has no party field. Open the Orthopaedic Surgeon donations hub or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee-level rows.