23 Georgia Physician Workforce: State - 1998 
Georgia Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
 
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Gender 
Male Female 
 
% 82.2 17.8 
 
Race 
White Black Asian Other 
 
% 81.3 
9.8 6.0 2.9 
 
Ethnicity 
 
% 
 
Hispanic Non-Hispanic 
 
3.3 96.7 
 
Physician Specialty 
Adolescent Medicine Aerospace Medicine Allergy Allergy & Immunology Anesthesiology Bloodbanking Cardiovascular Diseases Clinical Pharmacology Dermatology Diabetes Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Family Practice Gastroenterology General Preventative Medicine Geriatrics Gynecology Hematology Hypnosis Immunology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Laryngology Legal Medicine Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Neoplastic Diseases 
 
Age 
< 35 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 
> 64 
 
% 
0.8 9.0 15.4 18.4 17.4 12.3 7.4 16.8 
 
Count 
9 11 37 27 752 9 369 3 225 13 643 66 2,027 195 50 19 192 28 4 2 101 1,971 1 5 18 4 
 
Medicare 
Yes No 
 
% 81.2 18.8 
 
Medicaid 
Yes No 
 
% 77.9 22.1 
 
Managed 
 
Care 
 
% 
 
Yes 74.2 No 25.8 
 
Percent 
0.06% 
 
Georgia 
 
0.07% 
 
0.25% 
 
0.18% 
 
5.10% 
 
0.06% 
 
2.50% 
 
0.02% 
 
1.53% 
 
0.09% 
 
4.36% 
 
0.45% 
 
13.75% 
 
1.32% 
 
0.34% 
 
0.13% 
 
1.30% 
 
0.19% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.01% 
 
0.69% 
 
13.37% 
 
0.01% 
 
0.03% 
 
0.12% 
 
0.03% 
 
 Georgia Physician Workforce: State - 1998 
 
Georgia Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Nephrology Neurology Nuclear medicine Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Occupational Medicine Oncology Opthalmology Otology 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 Psychoanalysis Psychosomatic Medicine Public Health Pulmonary Diseases Radiology Diagnostic Radiology Nuclear Radiology Radioisotopic Radiology Therapeutic Radiology Rheumatology Rhinology Surgery - General Abdominal Surgery Cardiovascular Surgery Colon & Rectal Surgery 
 
108 256 
12 8 903 86 120 376 3 231 337 21 8 7 2 1,280 4 5 4 3 11 2 14 105 844 42 10 7 110 147 374 311 1 1 66 58 1 708 5 68 30 
 
0.73% 1.74% 0.08% 0.05% 6.13% 0.58% 0.81% 2.55% 0.02% 1.57% 2.29% 0.14% 0.05% 0.05% 0.01% 8.68% 0.03% 0.03% 0.03% 0.02% 0.07% 0.01% 0.09% 0.71% 5.73% 0.28% 0.07% 0.05% 0.75% 1.00% 2.54% 2.11% 0.01% 0.01% 0.45% 0.39% 0.01% 4.80% 0.03% 0.46% 0.20% 
 
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 Georgia Physician Workforce: State - 1998 
 
Georgia Physician Demographic Summary Statistics 
Hand Surgery Head & Neck Surgery Maxillofacial Surgery Neurological Surgery Orthopedic Surgery Plastic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Traumatic Surgery Urological Surgery Other 
Total Georgia Physicians 
Report created by Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, State of Georgia 
 
6 3 13 117 550 143 32 4 261 140 
14,739 
 
0.04% 0.02% 0.09% 0.79% 3.73% 0.97% 0.22% 0.03% 1.77% 0.95% 
100.00% 
 
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