Table 1.

Distribution of doctors in United States, 2004

	Primary care	Subspecialists	Total
No of doctors	222 059	398 568	620 627
No of people/doctor	1321	736	472
Doctors/100 000 population	75.8	136.0	211.5

^*Doctors who spend most of their time directly caring for patients (American Medical Association Physician Masterfile, 2004).