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The immigration policy of the Spanish government in the last years was based on controlling the illegal immigration and the attempts to rate the migratory flow. The alarming increase of the unemployment level in Spain in the last year and the decrease with 3,9% of the level of the gross domestic income in just two years determined the Spanish state to invoke "safeguard clause" in the area of free movement of workers. Thus the European Commission approved on August 11th 2011 the restriction of the Romanian workers access until December 31st 2012. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teledermatology has facilitated specialist care during the crisis caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, eliminating unnecessary office visits and the possible exposure of patients or dermatologists. However, teledermatology brings forward certain ethical and medicolegal questions. A medical consultation in which the patient is not physically present is still a medical act, to which all the usual ethical and medicolegal considerations and consequences apply. The patient's right to autonomy and privacy, confidentiality, and data protection must be guaranteed. The patient must agree to remote consultation by giving informed consent, for which a safeguard clause should be included. Well-defined practice guidelines and uniform legislation are required to preserve the highest level of safety for transferred data. Adequate training is also needed to prevent circumstances involving what might be termed «telemalpractice»., (Copyright © 2020 AEDV. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.)