Physicians know how to persevere. We are committed and hardworking. We went through many years of advanced schooling and training, which would not have been possible without perseverance. We are used to enduring physical, mental, and even spiritual hardship.

But this admirable trait can lead to trouble. Sometimes we don’t know when to quit. We associate quitting with giving up or failure, two ideas that are foreign to our identity. But quitting, defined as “to stop doing something or leave a job or a place, " is not always negative.