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Question:

Now compare your drawing with the real penny. What differences do you notice? If your drawing was different why do you think that was so? How does this activity correlate to clinical decision-making in selecting the best intervention for a clinical case? Once you've had a chance to think about these questions please click below to compare your thoughts with ours.

Answer:

It may well be that your pennies did not match reality. Some reasons might include

You could not remember clearly enough.
We use pennies all the time.
You assume you know.
We don't have a pressing need or opportunity to examine a penny with the care needed to remember all the details.

In a way, the photograph of the penny represents the objective reality while the drawings represent our individual subjective impressions.

Some lessons from this might include

Sometimes our memories are unreliable in supporting our clinical reasoning.
We need to use other ways to reinforce clinical decision-making processes.
It is important to recognize that we make assumptions all the time.
Sometimes we need to test the accuracy of our assumptions.