Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 1998 
Blue Ridge Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
Male Female 
 
% 86.0 14.0 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
 
% 86.7 
5.9 4.4 3.1 
 
Ethnicity 
 
% 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
3.6 96.4 
 
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 Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Laryngology Legal Medicine Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Nephrology Neurology 
 
Age 
< 35 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
% 
0.1 5.8 14.9 20.9 19.1 12.3 8.6 16.2 
 
Count 
2 1 5 5 99 3 42 2 25 1 99 3 336 24 4 1 21 1 1 8 200 1 1 1 9 26 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 83.0 17.0 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 78.6 21.4 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 79.6 No 20.4 
 
Percent 
0.11% 
 
Georgia 
0.06% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.07% 
 
0.28% 
 
0.25% 
 
0.28% 
 
0.18% 
 
5.48% 
 
5.10% 
 
0.17% 
 
0.06% 
 
2.32% 
 
2.51% 
 
0.11% 
 
0.02% 
 
1.38% 
 
1.53% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.09% 
 
5.48% 
 
4.36% 
 
0.17% 
 
0.45% 
 
18.58% 
 
13.75% 
 
1.33% 
 
1.32% 
 
0.22% 
 
0.34% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.13% 
 
1.16% 
 
1.30% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.19% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.44% 
 
0.69% 
 
11.06% 
 
13.38% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.01% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.50% 
 
0.73% 
 
1.44% 
 
1.74% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 1998 
 
Blue Ridge Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Occupational Medicine Oncology Opthalmology Otorhinolaryngology Pathology Forensic Pathology Pediatrics Physical Medicine & Rehab Psychiatry Child Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Psychosomatic Medicine Public Health Pulmonary Diseases Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Therapeutic Radiology Rheumatology Surgery - General Abdominal Surgery Cardiovascular Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery Maxillofacial Surgery Neurological Surgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Urological Surgery Other 
Total Blue Ridge Physicians 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
1 121 
11 18 36 31 27 1 170 14 91 4 2 2 5 22 39 43 6 6 84 1 3 1 6 13 74 13 4 24 14 
1,808 
 
0.06% 6.69% 0.61% 1.00% 1.99% 1.71% 1.49% 0.06% 9.40% 0.77% 5.03% 0.22% 0.11% 0.11% 0.28% 1.22% 2.16% 2.38% 0.33% 0.33% 4.65% 0.06% 0.17% 0.06% 0.33% 0.72% 4.09% 0.72% 0.22% 1.33% 0.77% 
100.00% 
 
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0.05% 6.13% 0.58% 0.81% 2.55% 1.57% 2.29% 0.05% 8.68% 0.71% 5.72% 0.28% 0.07% 0.05% 0.75% 1.00% 2.54% 2.11% 0.45% 0.39% 4.81% 0.03% 0.46% 0.20% 0.09% 0.79% 3.73% 0.97% 0.22% 1.77% 0.95%