Georgia Physician Workforce: MSA Reports - 1998 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
Male Female 
 
% 78.5 21.5 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
 
% 79.9 11.7 
5.4 3.0 
 
Ethnicity 
 
% 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
3.7 96.3 
 
Physician Specialty 
Adolescent Medicine Aerospace Medicine Allergy Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Bloodbanking Cardiovascular Diseases Clinical Pharmacology Dermatology Diabetes Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Family Practice Gastroenterology General Preventative Medicine Geriatrics Gynecology Hematology Hypnosis Immunology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Laryngology Legal Medicine Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Nephrology 
 
Age 
< 35 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
% 
1.1 10.2 16.6 19.0 17.2 11.6 
7.1 14.9 
 
Count 
1 10 19 17 426 5 204 3 151 10 325 45 807 114 40 10 118 20 1 2 82 1,179 1 4 12 56 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 76.7 23.3 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 71.5 28.5 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 75.7 No 24.3 
 
Percent 
0.01% 
 
Georgia 
0.06% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.07% 
 
0.23% 
 
0.25% 
 
0.21% 
 
0.18% 
 
5.17% 
 
5.10% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.06% 
 
2.47% 
 
2.51% 
 
0.04% 
 
0.02% 
 
1.83% 
 
1.53% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.09% 
 
3.94% 
 
4.36% 
 
0.55% 
 
0.45% 
 
9.79% 
 
13.75% 
 
1.38% 
 
1.32% 
 
0.49% 
 
0.34% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.13% 
 
1.43% 
 
1.30% 
 
0.24% 
 
0.19% 
 
0.01% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.01% 
 
0.99% 
 
0.69% 
 
14.30% 
 
13.38% 
 
0.01% 
 
0.01% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.15% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.68% 
 
0.73% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: MSA Reports - 1998 
 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Neurology Nuclear medicine Nutrition 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 Psychosomatic Medicine 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 
 
153 
 
1.86% 
 
9 
 
0.11% 
 
3 
 
0.04% 
 
507 
 
6.15% 
 
65 
 
0.79% 
 
75 
 
0.91% 
 
212 
 
2.57% 
 
3 
 
0.04% 
 
127 
 
1.54% 
 
188 
 
2.28% 
 
14 
 
0.17% 
 
7 
 
0.08% 
 
7 
 
0.08% 
 
2 
 
0.02% 
 
819 
 
9.94% 
 
1 
 
0.01% 
 
4 
 
0.05% 
 
3 
 
0.04% 
 
3 
 
0.04% 
 
8 
 
0.10% 
 
2 
 
0.02% 
 
10 
 
0.12% 
 
72 
 
0.87% 
 
500 
 
6.07% 
 
32 
 
0.39% 
 
7 
 
0.08% 
 
1 
 
0.01% 
 
99 
 
1.20% 
 
78 
 
0.95% 
 
198 
 
2.40% 
 
164 
 
1.99% 
 
1 
 
0.01% 
 
1 
 
0.01% 
 
35 
 
0.42% 
 
37 
 
0.45% 
 
1 
 
0.01% 
 
353 
 
4.28% 
 
2 
 
0.02% 
 
38 
 
0.46% 
 
18 
 
0.22% 
 
5 
 
0.06% 
 
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1.74% 0.08% 0.05% 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% 0.05% 0.75% 1.00% 2.54% 2.11% 0.01% 0.01% 0.45% 0.39% 0.01% 4.81% 0.03% 0.46% 0.20% 0.04% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: MSA Reports - 1998 
 
Atlanta Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Head & Neck Surgery 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 10 54 309 90 14 4 140 93 
8,243 
 
0.04% 0.12% 0.66% 3.75% 1.09% 0.17% 0.05% 1.70% 1.13% 
100.00% 
 
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0.02% 0.09% 0.79% 3.73% 0.97% 0.22% 0.03% 1.77% 0.95%