California sees an uptick in sex misconduct claims against physicians 

There has been a 62% jump in the number of sexual misconduct complaints against California physicians since the fall of 2017, according to a new Los Angeles Times analysis. The jump coincides with the beginning of the #MeToo movement, the report says. California’s medical board received more than 11,400 complaints against physicians and surgeons as of the end of June, the most number of complaints the board has ever received in a single fiscal year. The investigation also found that there were 280 complaints in the fiscal year 2017-2018, compared to about 173 the previous year. But disciplinary action is taken in only about 4% of such cases, a number that has dropped recently, according to the LA Times. For instance, 21 physicians were disciplined in the 2016-2018 fiscal years, while 13 physicians were disciplined in 2018-2019 for sexual misconduct.

Correction: Yesterday's item on physician-assisted deaths had a typo that incorrectly suggested how people died. More than three-quarters of people who ingested lethal medication had cancer.