Percent distribution of active physicians in patient care by specialty, 2007

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that, in 2008, there were about 661,400 physicians and surgeons in the US. More data, this time from the American Medical Association for 2007, shows us that 32 percent of physicians in patient care were in primary care, but not in a subspecialty. I will anxiously await the results for 2014 after Health Care has been socialized.

Specialty Percent

Internal Medicine 20.1%
Family medicine/general practice 12.4%
Pediatrics 9.6%
Obstetrics and gynecology 5.6%
Anesthesiology 5.5%
Psychiatry 5.2%
General Surgery 5.0%
Emergency Medicine 4.1%