The physician workforce by the numbers

Here are the number of active physicians in eight specialties, according to September data from KFF.

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Emergency medicine: 64,239 physicians

Psychiatry: 58,540 physicians

Surgery: 56,400 physicians

Anesthesiology: 53,038 physicians

Radiology: 49,872 physicians 

Cardiology: 34,312 physicians 

Oncology: 22,990 physicians 

Endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism: 8,842 physicians 

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