[crygin]

A 94% male cohort is so wildly disproportionate to the actual population of physicians (60% female) that it beggars belief. There are a number of potential confounding factors that could explain this ("natural" death being disproportionately represented and skewing the age of the cohort being, imho, the most likely), but with this skew against the total physician population... best taken with a whole lick of salt.

[mlyle]

Remember, you're not comparing the distribution of present physicians. You're comparing to the cohort of physicians old enough to die a few years ago. You won't know what the cohort of current physicians will do in old age until they get old.

[sgent]

My 74 YO relative was 1 of 5 in her graduating class of 210 from a US medical school. Women being even a significant minority of US physicians is a new thing.