1058, 1061 (7th Cir.1981) (comity compels recognition of state privileges when there is no substantial cost to federal policies). New Mexico, like the vast majority of the other states, has recognized a self-critical analysis privilege in the medical context and has protected such discussions from discovery. See N.M.StatAnn. § 41-9-5 (precluding any party from using the confidential records of medical peer review proceedings in civil litigation). Moreover, out of comity, it is incumbent upon this Court to consider the New Mexico legislature’s conclusion that the public interest in confidential morbidity and mortality conferences outweighs the interest of a single party to discovery of those discussions. See Lora v. Bd. Educ. of the City of New York, 74 F.R.D. 565, 576 (E.D.N.Y.1977) (<HOLDING>); United States v. King, 73 F.R.D. 103, 105
holding if a state holds out the expectation of protection to its citizens they should not be disappointed by a mechanical and unnecessary application of the federal rule recognizing the authority of each state to create protections for its citizens which might not be required under the federal concept recognizing that state agencies which are independent of the state are citizens of the state holding that due process and equal protection clauses of fourteenth amendment are not confined to protection of citizens rather they apply to all persons within the territorial jurisdiction holding that sovereign immunity barred a federal question suit against a state brought by one of its own citizens even though the text of the eleventh amendment only addresses suits brought by citizens of another state