Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 2002 
Blue Ridge Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
 
% 
 
Age 
 
Male 83.2 
 
< 35 
 
Female 16.8 
 
35-39 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
Ethnicity 
 
% 82.6 
8.3 5.6 3.5 
% 
 
40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
3.6 96.4 
 
Physician Specialty 
Addiction Psychiatry Aerospace Medicine Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular Surgery Clinical Pathology Colon & Rectal Surgery Dermatology Diagnostic Radiology Emergency Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Family Practice Gastroenterology Geriatrics Gynecology Hematology Immunology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Nephrology Neurological Surgery Neurology OB/GYN Occupational Medicine 
 
% 3.8 14.2 16.9 19.0 16.8 10.2 6.5 11.0 
Count 
11 2 16 97 32 9 2 5 31 36 123 4 394 17 5 21 6 2 6 340 4 14 14 25 164 13 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 82.1 17.9 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 79.3 20.7 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 80.7 No 19.3 
 
Percent 
0.49% 
 
Georgia 
0.40% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.71% 
 
0.65% 
 
4.31% 
 
4.64% 
 
1.42% 
 
2.23% 
 
0.40% 
 
0.35% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.22% 
 
0.31% 
 
1.38% 
 
1.50% 
 
1.60% 
 
1.65% 
 
5.46% 
 
4.58% 
 
0.18% 
 
0.42% 
 
17.50% 
 
13.18% 
 
0.75% 
 
1.09% 
 
0.22% 
 
0.38% 
 
0.93% 
 
0.72% 
 
0.27% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.27% 
 
0.81% 
 
15.10% 
 
15.22% 
 
0.18% 
 
0.37% 
 
0.62% 
 
0.75% 
 
0.62% 
 
0.72% 
 
1.11% 
 
1.67% 
 
7.28% 
 
6.90% 
 
0.58% 
 
0.42% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: AHEC Reports - 2002 
 
Blue Ridge Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Oncology Opthalmology Orthopedic Surgery Otolaryngology Pain Medicine Pathology Pediatric Neurology Pediatric Radiology Pediatrics Plastic Surgery Preventive Medicine Psychiatry Public Health Pulmonary Diseases Radiology Rheumatology Therapeutic Radiology General Surgery Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Thoracic Surgery Urology Other 
Total Blue Ridge Physicians 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
17 40 83 29 14 39 3 2 229 21 7 106 1 26 65 6 9 98 1 4 31 28 
2,252 
 
0.75% 1.78% 3.69% 1.29% 0.62% 1.73% 0.13% 0.09% 10.17% 0.93% 0.31% 4.71% 0.04% 1.15% 2.89% 0.27% 0.40% 4.35% 0.04% 0.18% 1.38% 1.24% 
100.00% 
 
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0.91% 2.41% 3.57% 1.50% 0.41% 2.31% 0.16% 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% 1.59% 1.21%