Hematology involves the diagnosis and care of diseases and disorders relating to the blood, spleen, and lymph glands. These include conditions such as anemia, clotting disorders, sickle cell disease, hemophilia, leukemia, and lymphoma, as well as special types of transfusions and bone marrow biopsies.
Physicians in this specialty treat patients suffering from numerous diseases and illnesses, but some of the most common are AIDS, hemophilia, Myelomas, Evans' syndrome, Malaria, lymphoma, Leukemia, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Sickle-cell disease, Myeloma, Pernicious anemia, Thalassemia, Thrombocytopenia, Hodgkin's disease, Infectious mononucleosis, Agranulocytosis, Myelofibrosis, Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and Megaloblastic anemia.
Once properly diagnosed, practitioners can perform numerous procedures on patients including Chemotherapy, radiotherapy, blood transfusion, Bone marrow transplant, Intramuscular injections, Anticoagulation therapy, and Venesection.
To diagnose patients with possible illnesses and diseases, specialists will often perform one of many tests including Coombs test, Bone marrow biopsy, D-dimer, Prothrombin time, Protein electrophoresis, Hemoglobin electrophoresis, Blood film, serum Ferritin level, Vitamin B12 and Folate levels, Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), Full blood count, and Partial thromboplastin time.
Doctor density varies by specialty and location. The United States has 9,203 practicing hematologists. Broken out by state, hematology doctor density in Alabama is 93, in Alaska is 13, in Arizona is 131, in Arkansas is 59, in California is 937, in Colorado is 121, in Connecticut is 164, in Delaware is 24, in District of Columbia is 99, in Florida is 560, in Georgia is 218, in Hawaii is 34, in Idaho is 22, in Illinois is 461, in Indiana is 165, in Iowa is 78, in Kansas is 57, in Kentucky is 101, in Louisiana is 105, in Maine is 59, in Maryland is 215, in Massachusetts is 418, in Michigan is 267, in Minnesota is 237, in Mississippi is 54, in Missouri is 156, in Montana is 23, in Nebraska is 55, in Nevada is 55, in New Hampshire is 46, in New Jersey is 346, in New Mexico is 56, in New York is 941, in North Carolina is 274, in North Dakota is 27, in Ohio is 343, in Oklahoma is 60, in Oregon is 115, in Pennsylvania is 551, in Rhode Island is 58, in South Carolina is 91, in South Dakota is 15, in Tennessee is 189, in Texas is 580, in Utah is 75, in Vermont is 22, in Virginia is 198, in Washington is 190, in West Virginia is 58, in Wisconsin is 168, and in Wyoming is 10.
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