60 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 1998 
Fulton County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
Male Female 
 
% 77.1 22.9 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
 
% 79.8 14.2 
3.7 2.3 
 
Ethnicity 
 
% 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
3.2 96.8 
 
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 Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Legal Medicine Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Nuclear medicine Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Occupational Medicine 
 
Age 
< 35 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
% 
1.8 11.4 17.1 18.1 16.6 11.5 
6.5 15.0 
 
Count 
7 3 10 182 2 95 65 6 131 19 213 53 18 2 65 8 35 525 2 8 26 50 5 1 234 28 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 75.6 24.4 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 67.7 32.3 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 76.0 No 24.0 
 
Percent 
0.21% 
 
Georgia 
0.07% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.25% 
 
0.30% 
 
0.18% 
 
5.39% 
 
5.10% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.06% 
 
2.81% 
 
2.51% 
 
1.93% 
 
1.53% 
 
0.18% 
 
0.09% 
 
3.88% 
 
4.36% 
 
0.56% 
 
0.45% 
 
6.31% 
 
13.75% 
 
1.57% 
 
1.32% 
 
0.53% 
 
0.34% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.13% 
 
1.93% 
 
1.30% 
 
0.24% 
 
0.19% 
 
1.04% 
 
0.69% 
 
15.56% 
 
13.38% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.24% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.77% 
 
0.73% 
 
1.48% 
 
1.74% 
 
0.15% 
 
0.08% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.05% 
 
6.93% 
 
6.13% 
 
0.83% 
 
0.58% 
 
 60 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 1998 
 
Fulton County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Oncology Opthalmology Otology Otorhinolaryngology Pathology Clinical Pathology Dermatopathology Forensic Pathology Naturopathology Pediatrics Pediatric Endocrinology Pediatric Hematology-oncology Pediatric Neurology Pediatric Surgery Physical Medicine & Rehab Psychiatry Child Psychiatry Psychoanalysis Public Health Pulmonary Diseases Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Nuclear Radiology Radioisotopic Radiology Therapeutic Radiology Rheumatology Surgery - General Cardiovascular Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery Hand Surgery Head & Neck Surgery Maxillofacial Surgery Neurological Surgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Traumatic Surgery Urological Surgery Other 
Total Fulton County Physicians 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
32 97 3 59 75 7 3 3 1 273 2 1 5 7 19 206 17 5 28 34 91 51 1 1 16 16 143 27 11 4 1 2 22 153 54 5 4 55 48 
3,375 
 
0.95% 2.87% 0.09% 1.75% 2.22% 0.21% 0.09% 0.09% 0.03% 8.09% 0.06% 0.03% 0.15% 0.21% 0.56% 6.10% 0.50% 0.15% 0.83% 1.01% 2.70% 1.51% 0.03% 0.03% 0.47% 0.47% 4.24% 0.80% 0.33% 0.12% 0.03% 0.06% 0.65% 4.53% 1.60% 0.15% 0.12% 1.63% 1.42% 
100.00% 
 
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0.81% 2.55% 0.02% 1.57% 2.29% 0.14% 0.05% 0.05% 0.01% 8.68% 0.03% 0.03% 0.07% 0.09% 0.71% 5.72% 0.28% 0.07% 0.75% 1.00% 2.54% 2.11% 0.01% 0.01% 0.45% 0.39% 4.81% 0.46% 0.20% 0.04% 0.02% 0.09% 0.79% 3.73% 0.97% 0.22% 0.03% 1.77% 0.95%