Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 2000 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
Male Female 
 
% 75.5 24.5 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
 
% 77.0 14.3 
5.9 2.9 
 
Ethnicity 
 
% 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
4.0 96.0 
 
Physician Specialty 
Addiction Medicine Aerospace Medicine Allergy Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Bloodbanking Broncho-esophagology 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 Neoplastic Diseases Nephrology 
 
Age 
< 35 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
% 
5.3 13.5 16.7 17.8 15.1 10.4 
6.6 12.4 
 
Count 
6 7 7 16 308 4 1 155 106 6 201 38 379 80 35 12 83 17 1 3 66 916 3 13 2 42 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 75.2 24.8 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 69.5 30.5 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 72.3 No 27.7 
 
Percent 
0.10% 
 
Georgia 
0.09% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.11% 
 
0.28% 
 
0.34% 
 
5.31% 
 
4.98% 
 
0.07% 
 
0.04% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.01% 
 
2.67% 
 
2.46% 
 
1.83% 
 
1.55% 
 
0.10% 
 
0.08% 
 
3.47% 
 
4.65% 
 
0.66% 
 
0.40% 
 
6.53% 
 
13.62% 
 
1.38% 
 
1.38% 
 
0.60% 
 
0.31% 
 
0.21% 
 
0.12% 
 
1.43% 
 
1.17% 
 
0.29% 
 
0.18% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.04% 
 
1.14% 
 
0.62% 
 
15.79% 
 
14.39% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.22% 
 
0.17% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.04% 
 
0.72% 
 
0.67% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 2000 
 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Neurology Nuclear medicine Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Occupational Medicine Oncology Opthalmology Otology Otorhinolaryngology Pain Medicine Pathology Clinical Pathology Dermatopathology Forensic Pathology Pediatrics Pediatric Allergy Pediatric Endocrinology Pediatric Hematology-oncology Pediatric Nephrology Pediatric Neurology Pediatric Radiology Pediatric Surgery Physical Medicine & Rehab Psychiatry Addiction Psychiatry Child Psychiatry Public Health Pulmonary Diseases Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Nuclear Radiology Radioisotopic Radiology Therapeutic Radiology Rheumatology Rhinology Surgery - General Abdominal Surgery Cardiovascular Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery Hand Surgery Head & Neck Surgery 
 
114 
 
1.97% 
 
7 
 
0.12% 
 
2 
 
0.03% 
 
337 
 
5.81% 
 
45 
 
0.78% 
 
49 
 
0.84% 
 
167 
 
2.88% 
 
1 
 
0.02% 
 
78 
 
1.34% 
 
3 
 
0.05% 
 
170 
 
2.93% 
 
7 
 
0.12% 
 
2 
 
0.03% 
 
2 
 
0.03% 
 
549 
 
9.47% 
 
2 
 
0.03% 
 
5 
 
0.09% 
 
2 
 
0.03% 
 
3 
 
0.05% 
 
8 
 
0.14% 
 
1 
 
0.02% 
 
8 
 
0.14% 
 
53 
 
0.91% 
 
407 
 
7.02% 
 
1 
 
0.02% 
 
13 
 
0.22% 
 
85 
 
1.47% 
 
60 
 
1.03% 
 
184 
 
3.17% 
 
90 
 
1.55% 
 
2 
 
0.03% 
 
1 
 
0.02% 
 
19 
 
0.33% 
 
30 
 
0.52% 
 
1 
 
0.02% 
 
272 
 
4.69% 
 
8 
 
0.14% 
 
24 
 
0.41% 
 
13 
 
0.22% 
 
2 
 
0.03% 
 
2 
 
0.03% 
 
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1.66% 0.07% 0.04% 6.27% 0.57% 0.82% 2.47% 0.03% 1.62% 0.09% 2.34% 0.09% 0.01% 0.01% 8.91% 0.02% 0.05% 0.01% 0.03% 0.07% 0.01% 0.08% 0.76% 5.80% 0.01% 0.15% 0.60% 1.00% 3.05% 1.68% 0.02% 0.01% 0.35% 0.39% 0.01% 4.91% 0.08% 0.30% 0.17% 0.02% 0.01% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 2000 
 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Maxillofacial Surgery Neurological Surgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Traumatic Surgery Urological Surgery Other 
Total Atlanta Physicians Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
3 47 189 63 16 3 86 57 
5,800 
 
0.05% 0.81% 3.26% 1.09% 0.28% 0.05% 1.48% 0.98% 
100.00% 
 
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0.07% 0.70% 3.53% 0.95% 0.22% 0.03% 1.58% 0.76%