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In Colombia, the Code of Medical Ethics advocated by Law 23 of 1981, does not include a specific section about the rights of physi- cians. In fact, they are diffuse in the law and continually violated. Consequently, there is a latent need to explicit physicians’ rights and their contextualized implications in the current Social Security Sys- tem in Health. Nowadays, the Code of Medical Ethics, despite of be- ing a law, represents an utopian moral prototype, not only related to the standards physicians must accomplish, but also to the obligations that hem, the State, the health providers and the asurers have acquired with them in order to guarantee the effectiveness of their performan- ce. In conclusion, as physicians must defend patients’ rights and du- ties, they must have the authority to defend their own, legally granted, in order to materialize the dignity of this profession.