Understanding the meaning of responsibility is not a philosophical or obsolete action in a post-modern, post-industrial, post capitalist and informational society as the one we currently inhabit, but a crucial issue when a society has to manage its limited resources. In this paper, based on the theoretical substantiation of both social responsibility and the community dilemma, I will analyze a dramatic situation faced by Romania: the mass emigration of a very specialized and valuable human resource the medical staff. Based on the existing figures of Romanian medical personnel emigration I used the secondary analyses to discuss this phenomenon and to explain it from a psycho sociological point of view. Unfortunately, amid a low social responsibility of the authorities, "the medical desertification" of Romania is increasingly obvious and the effects of medical staff emigration on Romanian social security are ever more acute.
