44 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 1998 
DeKalb County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
Male Female 
 
% 76.2 23.8 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
 
% 81.0 10.3 
5.4 3.3 
 
Ethnicity 
 
% 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
3.9 96.1 
 
Physician Specialty 
Aerospace Medicine Allergy Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Bloodbanking Cardiovascular Diseases Dermatology Diabetes Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Family Practice Gastroenterology General Preventative Medicine Geriatrics Gynecology Hematology Hypnosis Immunology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Nuclear medicine Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology 
 
Age 
< 35 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
% 
1.1 12.8 17.0 18.4 15.6 10.1 
7.3 15.0 
 
Count 
1 5 1 110 3 50 33 3 42 20 136 22 18 6 21 11 1 2 35 300 2 16 63 3 1 72 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 71.5 28.5 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 69.9 30.1 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 65.2 No 34.8 
 
Percent 
0.05% 
 
Georgia 
0.07% 
 
0.24% 
 
0.25% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.18% 
 
5.28% 
 
5.10% 
 
0.14% 
 
0.06% 
 
2.40% 
 
2.51% 
 
1.58% 
 
1.53% 
 
0.14% 
 
0.09% 
 
2.02% 
 
4.36% 
 
0.96% 
 
0.45% 
 
6.53% 
 
13.75% 
 
1.06% 
 
1.32% 
 
0.86% 
 
0.34% 
 
0.29% 
 
0.13% 
 
1.01% 
 
1.30% 
 
0.53% 
 
0.19% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.10% 
 
0.01% 
 
1.68% 
 
0.69% 
 
14.40% 
 
13.38% 
 
0.10% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.77% 
 
0.73% 
 
3.02% 
 
1.74% 
 
0.14% 
 
0.08% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.05% 
 
3.45% 
 
6.13% 
 
 44 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 1998 
 
DeKalb County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Occupational Medicine Oncology Opthalmology Otorhinolaryngology Pathology Clinical Pathology Dermatopathology Forensic Pathology Naturopathology Pediatrics Pediatric Allergy Pediatric Endocrinology Pediatric Hematology-oncology Pediatric Nephrology Pediatric Neurology Pediatric Radiology Pediatric Surgery Physical Medicine & Rehab Psychiatry Child Psychiatry Public Health Pulmonary Diseases Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Therapeutic Radiology Rheumatology Rhinology Surgery - General Cardiovascular Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery Hand Surgery Head & Neck Surgery Maxillofacial Surgery Neurological Surgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Urological Surgery Other 
Total DeKalb County Physicians 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
17 15 60 21 79 5 3 3 1 238 1 1 2 3 3 2 3 28 165 9 66 16 54 49 12 10 1 83 10 6 1 2 2 21 44 14 4 33 20 
2,084 
 
0.82% 0.72% 2.88% 1.01% 3.79% 0.24% 0.14% 0.14% 0.05% 11.42% 0.05% 0.05% 0.10% 0.14% 0.14% 0.10% 0.14% 1.34% 7.92% 0.43% 3.17% 0.77% 2.59% 2.35% 0.58% 0.48% 0.05% 3.98% 0.48% 0.29% 0.05% 0.10% 0.10% 1.01% 2.11% 0.67% 0.19% 1.58% 0.96% 
100.00% 
 
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0.58% 0.81% 2.55% 1.57% 2.29% 0.14% 0.05% 0.05% 0.01% 8.68% 0.03% 0.03% 0.03% 0.02% 0.07% 0.01% 0.09% 0.71% 5.72% 0.28% 0.75% 1.00% 2.54% 2.11% 0.45% 0.39% 0.01% 4.81% 0.46% 0.20% 0.04% 0.02% 0.09% 0.79% 3.73% 0.97% 0.22% 1.77% 0.95%