ABSTRACT
Although the relationship of the transplant surgeon to the patient entails all the usual ethical considerations such as informed consent, the doctor–patient relationship, and the evolution of experimental work to the standard of practice, there are unique elements in the field of transplantation that create additional ethical dilemmas. Transplant tourism was developed for organ selling. This brought about ethical issues related to paying donors for their body parts. In certain countries, sometimes it’s been oversight and therefore led many patients the United States to travel to other countries this country to receive an organ. Many US physicians feel obligated to inform patients that a life-saving organ is more readily available in another country through the existing program of allocation. Another set of ethical issues underlying transplants relate to the benefit versus harm considered in the context of both recipient and donor.
