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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 9.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2010 Sep 13;170(16):1442–1449. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.307

Table 2.

Specialty Distribution in Physician Sample

Specialty n %
All Specialties 10408
Allergy and Immunology 79 0.8%
Cardiology 482 4.6%
Cardiothoracic Surgery 81 0.8%
Emergency Medicine 560 5.4%
Endocrinology 152 1.5%
Family/General Practice 989 9.5%
Gastroenterology 246 2.4%
General Surgery 465 4.5%
Hematology/Oncology 197 1.9%
Internal Medicine 3587 34.5%
Nephrology 102 1.0%
Neurological Surgery 89 0.9%
Neurology 375 3.6%
Obstetrics and Gynecology 877 8.4%
Ophthalmology 376 3.6%
Orthopedic Surgery 491 4.7%
Otolaryngology 178 1.7%
Psychiatry 489 4.7%
Pulmonary & Critical Care 206 2.0%
Radiation Oncology 41 0.4%
Rheumatology 90 0.9%
Urology 203 2.0%
Vascular Surgery 53 0.5%