An Italian sacrifice to COVID-19 epidemic.

In order to better understand the problem of “deaths on the field” of Italian doctors during the COVID-19 outbreak, we have performed a descriptive statistic of colleagues who died. Data have been extracted from the national federation of medical doctor website (FNOMCEO, https://portale.fnomceo.it) reporting the daily bulletin of deaths. The present report is based on the available information by April 27th 2020 as the latest update. Cross-check by each name/surname has been made on a web search across local press and the individual’s professional order to obtain any other useful information. We included only those who were active or called back from retirement (122/151).