After Romania joined the EU, the migration of doctors abroad has increased and the consequences have started to be seen in the Romania's health care system. The relation between the right to freedom of movement and the social responsibility of the doctors employed in the Romanian health care system who go abroad for professional reasons is of current interest. Consequently, we may notice that the doctors' migration has an impact on the patients' right to access health care services, hence on their right to good health. We cannot separate the social responsibility of those doctors who decide to emigrate from such principles and ethic values as: equity, liberty, and social justice. Sometimes, social responsibility may even entail the forfeit of some rights, or their exercise within certain limits, so as to avoid infringing the equal rights and liberties of other persons and to abide by the ethic principle of doing good. Jeremy Snyder (2009) sees an obligation in these limitations and not the choice of persons, who have certain rights and who decide to give up their freedom of movement, to fulfill their obligations towards the local community. The fact that an individual lives in a community that favours a connection among individuals leads to a moral duty of each of the community's members and to social responsibility. Starting from this idea, a higher social responsibility of health care staff can be explained by these connexions and the state of necessity of those who live in the source country and who claim a fundamental right: the right to health care.

social responsibility Migration The right to freedom of movement Health Care Staff

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