From high volume to "zero" proctology: Italian experience in the COVID era.
Domenico MascagniChiara EberspacherPietro MascagniAlberto ArezzoFrancesco SelvaggiAlessandro SturialeGiovanni MilitoGabriele NaldiniPublished in: International journal of colorectal disease (2020)
In the absence of scientific evidence, these practical considerations may be valuable to proctological surgeons starting to face the COVID-19 pandemics. Beside the more clinical considerations, this crisis produced unexpected consequences such as an improvement of the therapeutic alliance and a shift towards telemedicine that may be worth exploring also in the post-COVID-19 era.