How much did orthopaedic surgeons donate in 2012?

Filers who wrote Orthopaedic Surgeon on FEC individual contribution records itemized $1,945,445 in the 2012 cycle, across 2,780 receipts from 1,836 donors. That cell is 12.3% of $15,862,739 harvested under the same exact occupation string. Nearby spellings are counted on other occupation pages.

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 2012. This page reports only the overlapping cell, $1.9 million, so the two dimensions are not restated as if they were the same table.

Are orthopaedic surgeon labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. Orthopaedic Surgeon, Orthopedic Surgeon, and Physician are separate keys. This join uses the British spelling that appears on the harvested rows. It does not recode titles into a medical-board specialty or merge misspellings. Researchers who need a crosswalk start from the raw string.

Does the 2012 total include PACs or party committees?

$1,945,445 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 2012 election cycle hub for committee-level rows.

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Orthopaedic surgeon donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Filers who listed their occupation as Orthopaedic Surgeon itemized $1.9 million ($1,945,445) in individual contributions during the 2012 federal election cycle. FEC.gov records 2,780 receipts from 1,836 donors under that exact string. This page is the join of one occupation label and one cycle, not a census of every bone-and-joint physician.

Key figures

Orthopaedic Surgeon × 2012: $1,945,445 in individual contributions.
2,780 receipts from 1,836 donors in that cell.
12.3% of the $15,862,739 occupation-string total.
Occupation text is filer-entered; nearby spellings are other keys.

Where orthopaedic surgeon meets 2012

LobbyVault stores occupation totals and cycle totals on separate hubs. The occupation hub for Orthopaedic Surgeon rolls every cycle that used this spelling. The 2012 election-cycle hub rolls every occupation that filed that cycle. The cell both filters share is $1,945,445. That dollar figure is not the occupation’s lifetime total and not 2012 giving by all medical specialties.

Orthopaedic is the spelling on the disclosure line. Nearby strings — orthopedic surgeon, orthopedist, physician — are different keys. A searcher who wants the 2012 slice of this key should cite $1.9 million and then open the occupation or cycle hub for the rest of the table. All FEC ties keeps this join next to other occupation-cycle cells so the relationship stays visible.

The occupation hub for Orthopaedic Surgeon lists $15.9 million ($15,862,739) under the exact string ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON. The 2012 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2012, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

The occupation string across cycles

Under the exact label ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON, harvested individual contributions sum to $15.9 million ($15,862,739). The 2012 cell is 12.3% of that occupation total. A 12 percent-class 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.

Medical job titles on FEC forms are typed by the contributor or the treasurer. Board certification, hospital employer, and specialty group PAC receipts are not fields here. The Orthopaedic Surgeon donations hub is the place to scan other cycles for the same string; this ties page stays on 2012.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,945,445. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $15,862,739. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Orthopaedic Surgeon donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

2012 receipts and donors

Inside the 2012 cell, 2,780 itemized contributions map to 1,836 donors. That is about 1.5 receipts per donor in the join — a repeat-gift ratio, not a unique-person survey of the specialty. Dollars per receipt average about $700; dollars per donor average about $1,060. Averages hide large and small lines sitting in the same total.

Presidential-year volume can mix primary, general, and recount-season receipts. This packet does not split $1,945,445 by those stages or by party. The 2012 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the orthopaedic-surgeon row.

2,780 is a receipt count. 1,836 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.9 million.

How to read the two dollar columns

Keep $1,945,445 attached to 2012 and $15,862,739 attached to the occupation string. Adding them would double-count the 2012 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 CMS reimbursement.

What the join does not claim

Occupation labels are filer-entered. A surgeon who wrote “physician” is not in $1.9 million. A non-surgeon who wrote this string is in it. LobbyVault does not audit licenses. The public record is the string plus the dollars.

No motive, no vote, no ranking of medical specialties. 1,836 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2012, not a turnout figure. Use All occupations to compare other labels; use All FEC ties for other joins.

Questions

How much did orthopaedic surgeons donate in 2012?: Filers who wrote Orthopaedic Surgeon on FEC individual contribution records itemized $1,945,445 in the 2012 cycle, across 2,780 receipts from 1,836 donors. That cell is 12.3% of $15,862,739 harvested under the same exact occupation string. Nearby spellings are counted on other occupation pages.
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 2012. This page reports only the overlapping cell, $1.9 million, so the two dimensions are not restated as if they were the same table.
Are orthopaedic surgeon labels standardized on FEC forms?: No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. Orthopaedic Surgeon, Orthopedic Surgeon, and Physician are separate keys. This join uses the British spelling that appears on the harvested rows. It does not recode titles into a medical-board specialty or merge misspellings. Researchers who need a crosswalk start from the raw string.
Does the 2012 total include PACs or party committees?: $1,945,445 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 2012 election cycle hub for committee-level rows.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. Occupation labels are filer-entered.