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 44,944 practicing emergency medicine doctors / intensivists. Broken out by state, emergency medicine doctor density in Alabama is 623, in Alaska is 116, in Arizona is 907, in Arkansas is 306, in California is 4,819, in Colorado is 807, in Connecticut is 483, in Delaware is 196, in District of Columbia is 206, in Florida is 2,279, in Georgia is 1,257, in Hawaii is 237, in Idaho is 183, in Illinois is 2,034, in Indiana is 974, in Iowa is 412, in Kansas is 283, in Kentucky is 717, in Louisiana is 741, in Maine is 268, in Maryland is 851, in Massachusetts is 1,198, in Michigan is 2,134, in Minnesota is 723, in Mississippi is 433, in Missouri is 1,127, in Montana is 153, in Nebraska is 193, in Nevada is 314, in New Hampshire is 198, in New Jersey is 1,131, in New Mexico is 376, in New York is 2,548, in North Carolina is 1,307, in North Dakota is 60, in Ohio is 1,950, in Oklahoma is 509, in Oregon is 647, in Pennsylvania is 2,389, in Rhode Island is 226, in South Carolina is 659, in South Dakota is 70, in Tennessee is 958, in Texas is 2,746, in Utah is 373, in Vermont is 108, in Virginia is 1,152, in Washington is 1,014, in West Virginia is 389, in Wisconsin is 814, and in Wyoming is 102.