Thomas Diflo

Who is Thomas Diflo?

Thomas Diflo, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a transplant surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Westchester Medical Center.

In a Village Voice article, Dr. Diflo has claimed that organs from executed Chinese criminals have been used for transplantation and that within a three-year period he treated six patients who have paid for and received such transplants.

While many organs from condemned prisoners are transplanted in China, there is also, according to the article, "a thriving black market in organs sold by live, willing donors in poorer nations with medical know-how, like India. 'I believe that both [practices] are morally and ethically reprehensible,' Diflo says. 'If there are degrees of reprehensibility, however, China wins hands down' because the organs are coming from the executed...'."