5_ CODE OF MEDICAL DEONTOLOGY - FOREWORD The Spanish General Medical Council (OMC) promulgated its first deontological provision in the Regulation of 1945, and the first Code of Medical Ethics and Deontology in 1978, under the protection of the Spanish Constitution of that year, which established the recognition and need to regulate Professional Associations and the practice of qualified professionals. The 1978 Code was later updated in 1990, 1999, and 2011. The present Code, approved by the General Assembly of the Spanish General Medical Council (CGCOM) in December 2022, arises from adapting the ethical and deontological framework to our social reality. Society demands that medical professionals have not only an adequate scientific level but also solid personal values, such as social and moral dignity, taking into account the relevance of the function that they provide to society when exercising their profession. The excellence of the academic training and professional dedication of the doctor must go hand in hand with sensitivity toward patients, giving them objective and tangible benefits in their health care, which society places in our hands. This Code serves to confirm the commitment of the medical profession to society, to which it provides its service, including the advancement of scientifictechnical knowledge and the development of new rights and responsibilities for doctors and patients. The guidelines contained in it must be distinguished from the impositions described in the laws. When dealing with mandatory standards, the general principles on which its writing was always based have been maintained: establishing ethical and deontological precepts inspired by the universal principles of
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