Transplant tourism poses ethical dilemma for US doctors
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 13:14
in Health & Medicine
A recent case study by doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York examined the ethical issues posed by transplant tourism, an offshoot of medical tourism, which focuses solely on transplantation surgery. Many American transplant professionals frown on the practice of transplant tourism where patients travel to countries such as China, India, and the Philippines for their transplantation.