Surgeon political contributions in the 2012 FEC cycle

Joining SURGEON to the 2012 cycle

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation SURGEON and the 2012 election cycle. The intersection is $2,256,006 ($2.3 million), 3,032 contributions, and 1,596 donors. 12.3% of Surgeon occupation dollars ($18,386,780) fall in 2012.

The 2012 cycle is an even-year FEC window, a presidential-year cycle in federal itemized receipts. This page does not add 2010 or 2014 dollars into the 2012 total. SURGEON is the generic title. ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON and other specialty strings remain separate. DOCTOR and PHYSICIAN are other keys. The join does not verify board certification or hospital privileges.

Reading SURGEON without merging sibling titles

On the occupation side, $18,386,780 is the Surgeon total across cycles. Sibling labels (ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON, PHYSICIAN, and DOCTOR) stay on other pages. Surgeon is not an ACS membership roll, a hospital credentialing file, or a surgical PAC.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $18,386,780. The Surgeon donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $2,256,006 is a slice of.

Reading 2012 without treating it as all Surgeon money

The 2012 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Surgeon. $2,256,006 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2012. It is not a 2010 or 2014 midterm-year filter.

3,032 contributions from 1,596 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,256,006, 3,032, and 1,596 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,256,006. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,256,006. Three numbers define the Surgeon × 2012 cell: dollars $2,256,006, contribution rows 3,032, unique donors 1,596. Share of occupation dollars is 12.3% of $18,386,780.

How not to read Surgeon money in 2012

Matching Surgeon with 2012 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Surgeon donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not an ACS membership roll, a hospital credentialing file, or a surgical PAC.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. SURGEON is the generic title. ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON and other specialty strings remain separate. DOCTOR and PHYSICIAN are other keys. The join does not verify board certification or hospital privileges. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Surgeon donations hub is $18,386,780; the 2012 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Surgeon and 2012 pages

Surgeon donations holds the $18,386,780 occupation total. The 2012 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Surgeon. All occupations places SURGEON beside other titles without merging sibling strings (ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON, PHYSICIAN, and DOCTOR). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,256,006 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Surgeon dollars ($18,386,780). Use the 2012 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,256,006, 3,032 contributions, 1,596 donors, 12.3% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Surgeon donations, the 2012 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties. Keep SURGEON as the occupation key and 2012 as the cycle key when joining files. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if a later extract disagrees with $2,256,006.

Using the Surgeon 2012 figures in a citation

A usable sentence names both sides: occupation SURGEON, cycle 2012, $2,256,006 itemized, 3,032 contributions, 1,596 donors, source FEC.gov. $2.3 million is a rounded form of $2,256,006.

Do not cite $18,386,780 as the 2012 figure. $18,386,780 is all-cycle Surgeon. Do not cite a cycle-wide total from this page; $2,256,006 is Surgeon only. Sibling strings (ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON, PHYSICIAN, and DOCTOR) remain outside $2,256,006. Independent expenditures remain outside $2,256,006.

Questions

How much did Surgeon donors give in 2012?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SURGEON in the 2012 cycle total $2,256,006, from 3,032 contributions and 1,596 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Surgeon-coded receipts are $18,386,780. 2012 is 12.3% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Surgeon 2012 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,256,006 or in the $18,386,780 occupation figure used here. Only if they typed SURGEON. ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON is a separate occupation string and a separate page. The 2012 join is $2,256,006 from 3,032 contributions and 1,596 donors.

Does Surgeon include orthopaedic surgeons?

Only if they typed SURGEON. ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON is a separate occupation string and a separate page. The 2012 cycle filter on Surgeon is $2,256,006, 3,032 contributions, and 1,596 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $18,386,780. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 3,032 Surgeon contributions and 1,596 donors in 2012?

The 2012 join includes 3,032 itemized contributions from 1,596 donors totaling $2,256,006. 3,032 contributions from 1,596 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.