Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 2006 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
 
% 
 
Age 
 
Male 68.3 
 
< 35 
 
Female 31.7 
 
35-39 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
Ethnicity 
 
% 74.5 13.8 
6.9 4.9 
% 
 
40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
4.4 95.6 
 
Physician Specialty 
Addiction Psychiatry Aerospace Medicine Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Bloodbanking Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery Dermatology Emergency Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Family Practice Gastroenterology Geriatrics Gynecology Hand Surgery Hematology Immunology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Nephrology Neurological Surgery Neurology Nuclear Medicine Nuclear Radiology 
 
% 11.3 16.0 14.8 16.2 15.0 11.0 
5.6 8.9 
Count 
12 6 30 317 1 248 40 18 104 250 71 427 122 16 105 4 15 2 146 869 60 81 56 126 8 6 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 74.3 25.7 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 70.1 29.9 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 67.9 No 32.1 
 
Percent 
0.19% 
 
Georgia 
0.33% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.07% 
 
0.46% 
 
0.65% 
 
4.89% 
 
4.72% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.03% 
 
3.82% 
 
2.36% 
 
0.62% 
 
0.36% 
 
0.28% 
 
0.28% 
 
1.60% 
 
1.57% 
 
3.85% 
 
4.77% 
 
1.09% 
 
0.45% 
 
6.58% 
 
13.09% 
 
1.88% 
 
1.18% 
 
0.25% 
 
0.42% 
 
1.62% 
 
0.63% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.23% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.03% 
 
2.25% 
 
0.85% 
 
13.40% 
 
15.14% 
 
0.93% 
 
0.43% 
 
1.25% 
 
0.85% 
 
0.86% 
 
0.74% 
 
1.94% 
 
1.74% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.07% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.06% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 2006 
 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
OB/GYN Occupational Medicine Oncology Opthalmology Orthopedic Surgery Otolaryngology Pain Medicine Pathology 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 Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Pulmonary Diseases 
Total Atlanta Physicians 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
338 42 
102 156 203 101 
33 162 
37 3 14 17 19 540 94 13 424 94 108 287 42 55 189 2 35 9 93 64 57 13 
6,486 
 
5.21% 0.65% 1.57% 2.41% 3.13% 1.56% 0.51% 2.50% 0.57% 0.05% 0.22% 0.26% 0.29% 8.33% 1.45% 0.20% 6.54% 1.45% 1.67% 4.42% 0.65% 0.85% 2.91% 0.03% 0.54% 0.14% 1.43% 0.99% 0.88% 0.20% 
100.00% 
 
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6.69% 0.44% 1.03% 2.32% 3.49% 1.55% 0.39% 2.26% 0.16% 0.03% 0.15% 0.07% 0.11% 9.07% 1.15% 0.40% 5.22% 0.43% 0.94% 2.32% 0.36% 0.54% 4.19% 0.04% 0.54% 0.02% 1.47% 1.34% 0.14%