During the COVID pandemic, there was a brief period when management systems broke down and doctors could use their own judgment and experience to decide treatment approaches; this led to creativity and experimentation, with some successes and some failures, representing the kind of professional autonomy that should be normal.

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Rupert Sheldrake

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there was a a wonderful moment of creativity early on in the covid crisis when managers couldn't keep up with the situation and doctors said well the hell whether we're going to do what we think will work and lots of things were experimented with and some of them were successful and some of them not

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:27:29 PM

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