Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth, TX has a population of approximately 813,980 people. There are 170 emergency physicians near Fort Worth, which gives it a ratio of 1 emergency physicians per 4,788 residents or a ratio of 1 emergency physicians per 1,722 households. There are 292,704 households in Fort Worth.