Staten Island Emergency Physicians

An emergency physician is a doctor who is an expert in handling conditions of an urgent and extremely dangerous nature. These specialists work in the emergency room (ER) departments of hospitals where they oversee cases involving cardiac distress, trauma, fractures, lacerations and other acute conditions.

Emergency physicians are specially trained to make urgent life-saving decisions to treat patients during an emergency medical crisis. These doctors diagnose and stabilize patients before they are either well enough to be discharged, or transferred to the appropriate department for long-term care.

The area of Staten Island, NY has a population of approximately 468,730 people. There are 93 emergency physicians near Staten Island, which gives it a ratio of 1 emergency physicians per 5,040 residents or a ratio of 1 emergency physicians per 1,780 households. There are 165,516 households in Staten Island.