Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 2000 
Blue Ridge Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
Male Female 
 
% 82.5 17.5 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
 
% 84.4 
7.2 5.1 3.3 
 
Ethnicity 
 
% 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
3.6 96.4 
 
Physician Specialty 
Addiction Medicine Aerospace Medicine Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Cardiovascular Diseases Dermatology Diabetes Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Family Practice Gastroenterology General Preventative Medicine Gynecology Hematology Hypnosis Immunology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Occupational Medicine Oncology Opthalmology 
 
Age 
< 35 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
% 
1.2 11.6 16.1 19.5 18.1 11.0 
6.9 13.8 
 
Count 
3 2 8 99 42 26 1 113 5 393 30 5 18 2 2 2 9 258 2 7 26 1 145 16 20 35 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 82.7 17.3 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 79.0 21.0 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 79.8 No 20.2 
 
Percent 
0.15% 
 
Georgia 
0.09% 
 
0.10% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.39% 
 
0.34% 
 
4.82% 
 
4.98% 
 
2.04% 
 
2.46% 
 
1.26% 
 
1.55% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.08% 
 
5.50% 
 
4.65% 
 
0.24% 
 
0.40% 
 
19.11% 
 
13.62% 
 
1.46% 
 
1.38% 
 
0.24% 
 
0.31% 
 
0.88% 
 
1.17% 
 
0.10% 
 
0.18% 
 
0.10% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.10% 
 
0.04% 
 
0.44% 
 
0.62% 
 
12.55% 
 
14.39% 
 
0.10% 
 
0.17% 
 
0.34% 
 
0.67% 
 
1.26% 
 
1.66% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.04% 
 
7.05% 
 
6.27% 
 
0.78% 
 
0.57% 
 
0.97% 
 
0.82% 
 
1.70% 
 
2.47% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 2000 
 
Blue Ridge Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Otorhinolaryngology Pain Medicine Pathology Clinical Pathology Pediatrics Pediatric Neurology Physical Medicine & Rehab Psychiatry Child Psychiatry Public Health Pulmonary Diseases Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Nuclear Radiology Therapeutic Radiology Rheumatology Surgery - General 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 
 
39 5 32 1 196 1 22 105 1 1 26 55 37 1 5 4 93 2 3 6 11 80 15 6 30 9 
2,056 
 
1.90% 0.24% 1.56% 0.05% 9.53% 0.05% 1.07% 5.11% 0.05% 0.05% 1.26% 2.68% 1.80% 0.05% 0.24% 0.19% 4.52% 0.10% 0.15% 0.29% 0.54% 3.89% 0.73% 0.29% 1.46% 0.44% 
100.00% 
 
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1.62% 0.09% 2.34% 0.09% 8.91% 0.07% 0.76% 5.80% 0.15% 0.60% 1.00% 3.05% 1.68% 0.02% 0.35% 0.39% 4.91% 0.30% 0.17% 0.07% 0.70% 3.53% 0.95% 0.22% 1.58% 0.76%