Emergency medicine is treatment and medications administered to those who are critically ill due to injury or disease. An emergency physician, also called an intensivist, acts immediately to prevent death or disability to a patient in a hospital intensive care department or elsewhere if a patient requires emergency care. The physician’s time-sensitive response to treatment is necessary to save lives, stabilize injuries, and prevent further disability in patients who require immediate care.
Doctor density varies by specialty and location. The United States has 41,360 practicing emergency medicine doctors / intensivists. Broken out by state, emergency medicine doctor density in Alabama is 463, in Alaska is 113, in Arizona is 867, in Arkansas is 249, in California is 4,590, in Colorado is 753, in Connecticut is 443, in Delaware is 171, in District of Columbia is 197, in Florida is 2,136, in Georgia is 1,115, in Hawaii is 237, in Idaho is 165, in Illinois is 1,967, in Indiana is 810, in Iowa is 293, in Kansas is 240, in Kentucky is 623, in Louisiana is 653, in Maine is 233, in Maryland is 768, in Massachusetts is 1,130, in Michigan is 2,116, in Minnesota is 945, in Mississippi is 373, in Missouri is 973, in Montana is 128, in Nebraska is 156, in Nevada is 305, in New Hampshire is 183, in New Jersey is 1,027, in New Mexico is 337, in New York is 2,435, in North Carolina is 1,195, in North Dakota is 71, in Ohio is 1,765, in Oklahoma is 467, in Oregon is 603, in Pennsylvania is 2,254, in Rhode Island is 223, in South Carolina is 587, in South Dakota is 58, in Tennessee is 727, in Texas is 2,425, in Utah is 351, in Vermont is 87, in Virginia is 1,030, in Washington is 938, in West Virginia is 321, in Wisconsin is 756, and in Wyoming is 81.
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