PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - A. M. Wong
TI  - The inhumanity of fairness: rationing resources for reconstructive breast surgery
DP  - 1995 Feb 15
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 577--579
VI  - 152
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/152/4/577.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/152/4/577.full
SO  - CMAJ1995 Feb 15; 152
AB  - The Dr. William Logie Medical Ethics Essay Contest is open to undergraduate medical students studying at Canadian universities. The contest, named in honour of Canada's first medical graduate, is sponsored by CMAJ. In the following essay, which won second price in the 1994 competition, Dr. Agnes Wong examines how the state of Oregon reviewed the services it would insure under Medicaid, and why it determined that reconstructive breast surgery following mastectomy would not qualify.