Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 1998 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
Male Female 
 
% 77.1 22.9 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
 
% 79.0 13.0 
5.2 2.8 
 
Ethnicity 
 
% 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
3.7 96.3 
 
Physician Specialty 
Aerospace Medicine Allergy Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Bloodbanking Cardiovascular Diseases Dermatology Diabetes Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Family Practice Gastroenterology General Preventative Medicine Geriatrics Gynecology Hematology Hypnosis Immunology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Legal Medicine Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Nuclear medicine Nutrition 
 
Age 
< 35 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
% 
1.5 11.8 16.8 18.3 16.0 11.2 
7.0 15.1 
 
Count 
8 9 11 308 5 158 104 9 186 40 393 80 36 8 91 19 1 2 72 871 2 11 44 120 8 2 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 74.6 25.4 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 69.2 30.8 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 72.8 No 27.2 
 
Percent 
0.14% 
 
Georgia 
0.07% 
 
0.15% 
 
0.25% 
 
0.19% 
 
0.18% 
 
5.30% 
 
5.10% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.06% 
 
2.72% 
 
2.51% 
 
1.79% 
 
1.53% 
 
0.15% 
 
0.09% 
 
3.20% 
 
4.36% 
 
0.69% 
 
0.45% 
 
6.76% 
 
13.75% 
 
1.38% 
 
1.32% 
 
0.62% 
 
0.34% 
 
0.14% 
 
0.13% 
 
1.57% 
 
1.30% 
 
0.33% 
 
0.19% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.01% 
 
1.24% 
 
0.69% 
 
14.98% 
 
13.38% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.19% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.76% 
 
0.73% 
 
2.06% 
 
1.74% 
 
0.14% 
 
0.08% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.05% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 1998 
 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Obstetrics & Gynecology Occupational Medicine Oncology Opthalmology Otology Otorhinolaryngology Pathology Clinical Pathology Dermatopathology Forensic Pathology Naturopathology Pediatrics Pediatric Allergy Pediatric Endocrinology Pediatric Hematology-oncology Pediatric Nephrology Pediatric Neurology Pediatric Radiology Pediatric Surgery Physical Medicine & Rehab Psychiatry Child Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Public Health Pulmonary Diseases Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Nuclear Radiology Radioisotopic Radiology Therapeutic Radiology Rheumatology Rhinology Surgery - General Cardiovascular Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery Hand Surgery Head & Neck Surgery Maxillofacial Surgery Neurological Surgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery 
 
325 
 
5.59% 
 
49 
 
0.84% 
 
53 
 
0.91% 
 
165 
 
2.84% 
 
3 
 
0.05% 
 
86 
 
1.48% 
 
157 
 
2.70% 
 
12 
 
0.21% 
 
7 
 
0.12% 
 
6 
 
0.10% 
 
2 
 
0.03% 
 
544 
 
9.36% 
 
1 
 
0.02% 
 
3 
 
0.05% 
 
3 
 
0.05% 
 
3 
 
0.05% 
 
8 
 
0.14% 
 
2 
 
0.03% 
 
10 
 
0.17% 
 
49 
 
0.84% 
 
388 
 
6.67% 
 
27 
 
0.46% 
 
5 
 
0.09% 
 
94 
 
1.62% 
 
56 
 
0.96% 
 
154 
 
2.65% 
 
103 
 
1.77% 
 
1 
 
0.02% 
 
1 
 
0.02% 
 
29 
 
0.50% 
 
29 
 
0.50% 
 
1 
 
0.02% 
 
248 
 
4.27% 
 
37 
 
0.64% 
 
17 
 
0.29% 
 
5 
 
0.09% 
 
3 
 
0.05% 
 
4 
 
0.07% 
 
46 
 
0.79% 
 
218 
 
3.75% 
 
71 
 
1.22% 
 
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6.13% 0.58% 0.81% 2.55% 0.02% 1.57% 2.29% 0.14% 0.05% 0.05% 0.01% 8.68% 0.03% 0.03% 0.03% 0.02% 0.07% 0.01% 0.09% 0.71% 5.72% 0.28% 0.07% 0.75% 1.00% 2.54% 2.11% 0.01% 0.01% 0.45% 0.39% 0.01% 4.81% 0.46% 0.20% 0.04% 0.02% 0.09% 0.79% 3.73% 0.97% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 1998 
 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Thoracic Surgery Traumatic Surgery Urological Surgery Other 
Total Atlanta Physicians 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
10 4 102 75 
5,814 
 
0.17% 0.07% 1.75% 1.29% 
100.00% 
 
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0.22% 0.03% 1.77% 0.95%