121 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 2002 
Richmond County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
 
% 
 
Age 
 
Male 82.2 
 
< 35 
 
Female 17.8 
 
35-39 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
Ethnicity 
 
% 80.7 
9.5 6.7 3.1 
% 
 
40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
3.1 96.9 
 
Physician Specialty 
Addiction Psychiatry Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular Surgery Clinical Pathology Colon & Rectal Surgery Dermatology Dermatopathology Diagnostic Radiology Emergency Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Family Practice Gastroenterology Geriatrics Gynecology Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Nephrology Neurological Surgery Neurology Neuropathology Nuclear Medicine Nuclear Radiology 
 
% 4.7 11.1 14.4 15.9 17.9 13.6 7.6 11.1 
Count 
2 12 70 46 4 2 9 20 1 34 60 4 85 22 7 6 1 9 153 7 13 17 31 1 1 1 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 86.3 13.7 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 85.8 14.2 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 71.8 No 28.2 
 
Percent 
0.17% 
 
Georgia 
0.40% 
 
1.02% 
 
0.65% 
 
5.97% 
 
4.64% 
 
3.92% 
 
2.23% 
 
0.34% 
 
0.35% 
 
0.17% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.77% 
 
0.31% 
 
1.71% 
 
1.50% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.05% 
 
2.90% 
 
1.65% 
 
5.12% 
 
4.58% 
 
0.34% 
 
0.42% 
 
7.25% 
 
13.18% 
 
1.88% 
 
1.09% 
 
0.60% 
 
0.38% 
 
0.51% 
 
0.72% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.06% 
 
0.77% 
 
0.81% 
 
13.04% 
 
15.22% 
 
0.60% 
 
0.37% 
 
1.11% 
 
0.75% 
 
1.45% 
 
0.72% 
 
2.64% 
 
1.67% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.05% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.08% 
 
0.09% 
 
0.07% 
 
 121 Georgia Physician Workforce: County Reports - 2002 
 
Richmond County Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
OB/GYN 
 
70 
 
Occupational Medicine 
 
2 
 
Oncology 
 
16 
 
Opthalmology 
 
27 
 
Orthopedic Surgery 
 
43 
 
Otolaryngology 
 
21 
 
Pain Medicine 
 
3 
 
Pathology 
 
40 
 
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 
 
4 
 
Pediatric Nephrology 
 
1 
 
Pediatric Neurology 
 
4 
 
Pediatric Surgery 
 
2 
 
Pediatrics 
 
101 
 
Plastic Surgery 
 
14 
 
Preventive Medicine 
 
1 
 
Psychiatry 
 
62 
 
Pulmonary Diseases 
 
17 
 
Radiology 
 
21 
 
Rheumatology 
 
6 
 
Therapeutic Radiology 
 
5 
 
General Surgery 
 
54 
 
Spinal Cord Injury Medicine 
 
3 
 
Thoracic Surgery 
 
7 
 
Traumatic Surgery 
 
1 
 
Urology 
 
16 
 
Other 
 
14 
 
Total Richmond County Physicians 
 
1,173 
 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
5.97% 0.17% 1.36% 2.30% 3.67% 1.79% 0.26% 3.41% 0.34% 0.09% 0.34% 0.17% 8.61% 1.19% 0.09% 5.29% 1.45% 1.79% 0.51% 0.43% 4.60% 0.26% 0.60% 0.09% 1.36% 1.19% 
100.00% 
 
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6.90% 0.42% 0.91% 2.41% 3.57% 1.50% 0.41% 2.31% 0.15% 0.02% 0.16% 0.10% 9.07% 1.11% 0.49% 5.43% 0.87% 2.68% 0.32% 0.55% 4.40% 0.04% 0.56% 0.02% 1.59% 1.21%