33 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 1998 
Cobb County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
Male Female 
 
% 84.3 15.7 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
 
% 86.6 
6.8 3.3 3.4 
 
Ethnicity 
 
% 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
4.8 95.2 
 
Physician Specialty 
Adolescent Medicine Aerospace Medicine Allergy Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Cardiovascular Diseases Clinical Pharmacology Dermatology Diabetes Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Family Practice Gastroenterology General Preventative Medicine Gynecology Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Laryngology Legal Medicine Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Obstetrics & Gynecology Occupational Medicine Oncology 
 
Age 
< 35 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
% 
0.2 3.8 13.3 21.4 20.0 13.9 8.8 16.8 
 
Count 
1 1 2 3 45 20 2 17 1 38 2 84 15 2 9 1 6 96 1 1 1 4 15 59 8 11 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 80.2 19.8 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 72.5 27.5 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 84.0 No 16.0 
 
Percent 
0.12% 
 
Georgia 
0.06% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.07% 
 
0.24% 
 
0.25% 
 
0.35% 
 
0.18% 
 
5.32% 
 
5.10% 
 
2.36% 
 
2.51% 
 
0.24% 
 
0.02% 
 
2.01% 
 
1.53% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.09% 
 
4.49% 
 
4.36% 
 
0.24% 
 
0.45% 
 
9.93% 
 
13.75% 
 
1.77% 
 
1.32% 
 
0.24% 
 
0.34% 
 
1.06% 
 
1.30% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.19% 
 
0.71% 
 
0.69% 
 
11.35% 
 
13.38% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.01% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.47% 
 
0.73% 
 
1.77% 
 
1.74% 
 
6.97% 
 
6.13% 
 
0.95% 
 
0.58% 
 
1.30% 
 
0.81% 
 
 33 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 1998 
 
Cobb County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Opthalmology Otorhinolaryngology Pathology Forensic Pathology Pediatrics Physical Medicine & Rehab Psychiatry Child Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Public Health Pulmonary Diseases Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Therapeutic Radiology Rheumatology Surgery - General Abdominal Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery Maxillofacial Surgery Neurological Surgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Urological Surgery Other 
Total Cobb County Physicians 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
18 14 14 1 101 13 50 2 1 3 13 13 21 2 4 42 1 1 5 5 42 9 2 13 11 
846 
 
2.13% 1.65% 1.65% 0.12% 11.94% 1.54% 5.91% 0.24% 0.12% 0.35% 1.54% 1.54% 2.48% 0.24% 0.47% 4.96% 0.12% 0.12% 0.59% 0.59% 4.96% 1.06% 0.24% 1.54% 1.30% 
100.00% 
 
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2.55% 1.57% 2.29% 0.05% 8.68% 0.71% 5.72% 0.28% 0.07% 0.75% 1.00% 2.54% 2.11% 0.45% 0.39% 4.81% 0.03% 0.20% 0.09% 0.79% 3.73% 0.97% 0.22% 1.77% 0.95%