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cord-342241-76mtn1m7	Lenti, Marco Vincenzo	Carving out a place for internal medicine during COVID‐19 epidemic in Italy	2020-05-04		.txt	text/plain	1274	67	49	Internal medicine has been immediately involved in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in Italy, which started in late February 2020. The first few COVID-19 cases were suspected and diagnosed in internal medicine wards, including, among others, a young adult male from Codogno (referred to as "patient 1"), who was later transferred to the Intensive Care Unit of our hospital. Internal medicine was also called to the front line and has proactively responded with great flexibility to the growing number of cases, transforming its divisions into departments dedicated to the care of COVID-19. At our hospital, two entire Internal Medicine Units, in a few days, were transformed into 'COVID' wards. In summary, internal medicine has responded promptly to COVID-19 Italian epidemic, due to its holistic attitudethe sick patient as an individual, rather than the disease, is the object of the studyand its methodological approach [5] .	./cache/cord-342241-76mtn1m7.txt	./txt/cord-342241-76mtn1m7.txt