44 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 2000 
DEKALB County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
Male Female 
 
% 73.7 26.3 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
 
% 77.4 12.7 
6.5 3.4 
 
Ethnicity 
 
% 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
4.5 95.5 
 
Physician Specialty 
Addiction Medicine 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 Legal Medicine Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Nuclear medicine 
 
Age 
< 35 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
% 
6.1 16.3 16.2 17.5 14.5 
9.0 6.2 12.2 
 
Count 
3 1 1 5 98 2 49 39 3 47 15 149 17 23 8 16 10 1 3 34 347 1 3 14 55 3 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 72.4 27.6 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 71.1 28.9 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 65.0 No 35.0 
 
Percent 
0.14% 
 
Georgia 
0.09% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.11% 
 
0.24% 
 
0.34% 
 
4.61% 
 
4.98% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.04% 
 
2.31% 
 
2.46% 
 
1.84% 
 
1.55% 
 
0.14% 
 
0.08% 
 
2.21% 
 
4.65% 
 
0.71% 
 
0.40% 
 
7.02% 
 
13.62% 
 
0.80% 
 
1.38% 
 
1.08% 
 
0.31% 
 
0.38% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.75% 
 
1.17% 
 
0.47% 
 
0.18% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.02% 
 
0.14% 
 
0.04% 
 
1.60% 
 
0.62% 
 
16.34% 
 
14.39% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.14% 
 
0.17% 
 
0.66% 
 
0.67% 
 
2.59% 
 
1.66% 
 
0.14% 
 
0.07% 
 
 44 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 2000 
 
DEKALB County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
Nutrition 
 
1 
 
Obstetrics & Gynecology 
 
74 
 
Occupational Medicine 
 
20 
 
Oncology 
 
12 
 
Opthalmology 
 
59 
 
Otorhinolaryngology 
 
22 
 
Pathology 
 
97 
 
Clinical Pathology 
 
2 
 
Forensic Pathology 
 
1 
 
Pediatrics 
 
223 
 
Pediatric Allergy 
 
1 
 
Pediatric Endocrinology 
 
3 
 
Pediatric Hematology-oncology 
 
1 
 
Pediatric Nephrology 
 
2 
 
Pediatric Neurology 
 
4 
 
Pediatric Radiology 
 
1 
 
Pediatric Surgery 
 
1 
 
Physical Medicine & Rehab 
 
32 
 
Psychiatry 
 
169 
 
Child Psychiatry 
 
3 
 
Public Health 
 
60 
 
Pulmonary Diseases 
 
17 
 
Radiology 
 
88 
 
Diagnostic Radiology 
 
32 
 
Nuclear Radiology 
 
2 
 
Radioisotopic Radiology 
 
1 
 
Therapeutic Radiology 
 
6 
 
Rheumatology 
 
8 
 
Surgery - General 
 
102 
 
Cardiovascular Surgery 
 
5 
 
Colon & Rectal Surgery 
 
2 
 
Hand Surgery 
 
1 
 
Head & Neck Surgery 
 
1 
 
Maxillofacial Surgery 
 
1 
 
Neurological Surgery 
 
20 
 
Orthopedic Surgery 
 
37 
 
Plastic Surgery 
 
13 
 
Thoracic Surgery 
 
4 
 
Urological Surgery 
 
23 
 
Other 
 
26 
 
0.05% 3.48% 0.94% 0.56% 2.78% 1.04% 4.57% 0.09% 0.05% 10.50% 0.05% 0.14% 0.05% 0.09% 0.19% 0.05% 0.05% 1.51% 7.96% 0.14% 2.82% 0.80% 4.14% 1.51% 0.09% 0.05% 0.28% 0.38% 4.80% 0.24% 0.09% 0.05% 0.05% 0.05% 0.94% 1.74% 0.61% 0.19% 1.08% 1.22% 
 
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0.04% 6.27% 0.57% 0.82% 2.47% 1.62% 2.34% 0.09% 0.01% 8.91% 0.02% 0.05% 0.01% 0.03% 0.07% 0.01% 0.08% 0.76% 5.80% 0.15% 0.60% 1.00% 3.05% 1.68% 0.02% 0.01% 0.35% 0.39% 4.91% 0.30% 0.17% 0.02% 0.01% 0.07% 0.70% 3.53% 0.95% 0.22% 1.58% 0.76% 
 
 44 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 2000 
 
DEKALB County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
Total DEKALB County Physicians 
 
2,124 100.00% 
 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
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