Wiltie,
According to John C. Nelson, MD, MPH, Immediate Past-President of the
American Medical Association on August 2, 2005 at the 3rd Annual World
Congress Leadership Summit, there are 918,000 physicians in the United
States.
Excerpt:
"It is a pleasure to represent America's 918,000 physicians and to
facilitate a discussion with you this afternoon on a set of Principles
that the American Medical Association has evolved to guide development
of Pay for Performance plans in the future."
AMA
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/15486.html
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According to the AMA publication ?Physician Characteristics and
Distribution in the U.S. - 2004 Edition? there were 853,187
physicians in the United States.
https://catalog.ama-assn.org/Catalog/product/product_detail.jsp?productId=prod10002
The number of physicians by specialty and activity is provided here:
https://catalog.ama-assn.org/MEDIA/ProductCatalog/m270018_PCD_04_table_1.9.pdf
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