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The authors respond to comments about their article "Transplant tourism in China: A tale of two transplants." They mention that their point was to take issue with strong denouncements by the transplant community against the use of organs from executed prisoners in China. They discuss physicians' professional responsibilities to themselves, to their patients and to those that are not their patients.

The author responds to the article "Transplant tourism in China: A tale of two transplants," by R. Rhodes and T. Schiano. The author suggests that Rhodes and Schiano are wrong in arguing that the two cases of transplant tourism were correctly handled differently by the hospital. In both cases, the author suggests, professional obligations were at stake.