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2 Canterbury v. Spence, 464 F.2d 772 (D.C. Cir. 1972); Cobbs v. Grant, 502 P.2d 1 (Cal. 1972); Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Bd. of Trustees, 154 Cal. App. 2d 560 (Cal. Ct. App. 1957); Natanson v. Kline, 350 P.2d 1093 (Kan. 1960).
3 For a more detailed discussion of some of these points, see PAUL T. MENZEL, STRONG MEDICINE: THE ETHICAL RATIONING OF HEALTH CARE 5-7, 10-15, 17-19, 144-47, 152-61 (1990).
4 For an example of an attempt, no doubt problematic, to see the rationing role of physicians as part of their fidelity to individual patients instead of seeing it as a result of balancing the needs of society and other patients against loyalty to the individual patient, see id, at 3-21.