Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 2002 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
 
% 
 
Age 
 
Male 74.9 
 
< 35 
 
Female 25.1 
 
35-39 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
Ethnicity 
 
% 75.6 15.4 
5.9 3.0 
% 
 
40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
4.0 96.0 
 
Physician Specialty 
Addiction Psychiatry Aerospace Medicine Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Bloodbanking Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular Surgery Clinical Pathology Colon & Rectal Surgery Dermatology Dermatopathology Diagnostic Radiology Emergency Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Family Practice Forensic Pathology Gastroenterology Geriatrics Gynecology Hand Surgery Hematology Immunology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Nephrology 
 
% 6.4 13.7 16.7 18.2 15.4 10.1 6.0 11.0 
Count 
29 8 34 295 5 168 31 6 18 99 6 80 207 41 391 9 80 26 48 2 1 1 111 906 30 50 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 75.2 24.8 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 69.9 30.1 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 70.9 No 29.1 
 
Percent 
0.49% 
 
Georgia 
0.40% 
 
0.14% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.58% 
 
0.65% 
 
5.01% 
 
4.64% 
 
0.08% 
 
0.03% 
 
2.85% 
 
2.23% 
 
0.53% 
 
0.35% 
 
0.10% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.31% 
 
0.31% 
 
1.68% 
 
1.50% 
 
0.10% 
 
0.05% 
 
1.36% 
 
1.65% 
 
3.52% 
 
4.58% 
 
0.70% 
 
0.42% 
 
6.64% 
 
13.18% 
 
0.15% 
 
0.07% 
 
1.36% 
 
1.09% 
 
0.44% 
 
0.38% 
 
0.82% 
 
0.72% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.02% 
 
1.89% 
 
0.81% 
 
15.39% 
 
15.22% 
 
0.51% 
 
0.37% 
 
0.85% 
 
0.75% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 2002 
 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Neurological Surgery Neurology Neuropathology Nuclear Medicine Nuclear Radiology OB/GYN Occupational Medicine Oncology Opthalmology Orthopedic Surgery Otolaryngology Pain Medicine Pathology Pediatric Endocrinology Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Pediatric Nephrology Pediatric Neurology Pediatric Radiology Pediatric Surgery Pediatrics Plastic Surgery Preventive Medicine Psychiatry Public Health Pulmonary Diseases Radiology Rheumatology Therapeutic Radiology General Surgery Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Thoracic Surgery Traumatic Surgery Urology Other 
Total Atlanta Physicians 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
47 117 
5 9 5 380 37 70 158 187 92 25 159 6 17 3 11 13 14 559 80 49 378 61 50 173 25 39 222 1 49 1 89 73 
5,886 
 
0.80% 1.99% 0.08% 0.15% 0.08% 6.46% 0.63% 1.19% 2.68% 3.18% 1.56% 0.42% 2.70% 0.10% 0.29% 0.05% 0.19% 0.22% 0.24% 9.50% 1.36% 0.83% 6.42% 1.04% 0.85% 2.94% 0.42% 0.66% 3.77% 0.02% 0.83% 0.02% 1.51% 1.24% 
100.00% 
 
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0.72% 1.67% 0.05% 0.08% 0.07% 6.90% 0.42% 0.91% 2.41% 3.57% 1.50% 0.41% 2.31% 0.04% 0.15% 0.02% 0.16% 0.10% 0.10% 9.07% 1.11% 0.49% 5.43% 0.42% 0.87% 2.68% 0.32% 0.55% 4.40% 0.04% 0.56% 0.02% 1.59% 1.21%