25 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 1998 
Chatham County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
Male Female 
 
% 85.9 14.1 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
 
% 88.2 
5.0 3.8 2.9 
 
Ethnicity 
 
% 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
2.8 97.2 
 
Physician Specialty 
Adolescent Medicine Allergy Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Bloodbanking Cardiovascular Diseases Dermatology Diabetes Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Family Practice Gastroenterology General Preventative Medicine Geriatrics Gynecology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Neoplastic Diseases Nephrology Neurology Obstetrics & Gynecology Occupational Medicine Oncology Opthalmology Otorhinolaryngology 
 
Age 
< 35 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
% 
0.7 6.8 13.5 17.1 17.0 11.4 9.0 21.5 
 
Count 
2 3 3 28 1 25 8 1 22 2 84 9 1 1 9 3 69 3 1 4 9 43 3 5 19 15 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 86.6 13.4 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 86.8 13.2 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 77.3 No 22.7 
 
Percent 
0.32% 
 
Georgia 
0.06% 
 
0.49% 
 
0.25% 
 
0.49% 
 
0.18% 
 
4.54% 
 
5.10% 
 
0.16% 
 
0.06% 
 
4.05% 
 
2.51% 
 
1.30% 
 
1.53% 
 
0.16% 
 
0.09% 
 
3.57% 
 
4.36% 
 
0.32% 
 
0.45% 
 
13.61% 
 
13.75% 
 
1.46% 
 
1.32% 
 
0.16% 
 
0.34% 
 
0.16% 
 
0.13% 
 
1.46% 
 
1.30% 
 
0.49% 
 
0.69% 
 
11.18% 
 
13.38% 
 
0.49% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.16% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.65% 
 
0.73% 
 
1.46% 
 
1.74% 
 
6.97% 
 
6.13% 
 
0.49% 
 
0.58% 
 
0.81% 
 
0.81% 
 
3.08% 
 
2.55% 
 
2.43% 
 
1.57% 
 
 25 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 1998 
 
Chatham County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Pathology Clinical Pathology Pediatrics Pediatric Surgery 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 Neurological Surgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Urological Surgery Other 
Total Chatham County Physicians 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
10 1 42 1 5 29 1 1 1 1 11 14 28 3 2 30 1 4 1 7 21 9 4 11 6 
617 
 
1.62% 0.16% 6.81% 0.16% 0.81% 4.70% 0.16% 0.16% 0.16% 0.16% 1.78% 2.27% 4.54% 0.49% 0.32% 4.86% 0.16% 0.65% 0.16% 1.13% 3.40% 1.46% 0.65% 1.78% 0.97% 
100.00% 
 
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2.29% 0.14% 8.68% 0.09% 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% 0.79% 3.73% 0.97% 0.22% 1.77% 0.95%