Push-Ups

Push-ups are not an arm exercise.

They are a full-body stability challenge and your arms are just the most visible part of what's happening. When a push-up breaks down, it rarely breaks down at the arms, it breaks down at the foundation underneath them.

Clinical reasoning works the same way.

The diagnosis, the technique, the treatment, those are the arms. But underneath every clinical decision is the foundation of clinical reasoning, and when it breaks down, it breaks there–a bias we didn't catch, a question we didn't ask, an assumption we didn't challenge.

The arms get the credit, but the foundation does the work.