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s After the Pandemic series, we asked our editorial board members to discuss what significant and lasting effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have on medicine and the delivery of healthcare. Here, we interview Bob Doherty, Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs and Public Policy for the American College of Physicians (ACP). How will internal medicine change as a result of the pandemic? Doherty: One result is that people have discovered how important internal medicine is in our healthcare system. The value that internal medicine physicians bring to healthcare was greatly illustrated during the pandemic, not only in the sense that internal medicine physicians were on the front lines treating COVID-19 patients whether as primary care physicians or infectious disease specialists [but] they were leading the evidence-based response to COVID-19. And the simple fact was that the most trusted spokespersons on COVID-19 have been internal medicine physicians such as Dr. [A

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