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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nQuit \n\/kwit\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
verb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
gerund or present participle: quitting<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n1. leave (a place), usually permanently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n“he was ordered to quit the cabin immediately”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nsynonyms: leave, vacate, exit,\ndepart from, withdraw from; abandon, desert<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Often, we are faced with the idea of\n\u201cquitting\u201d. Beyond the dictionary definition above, quitting\ntakes on many shapes and sizes. It could involve a conscious change in career\ntrajectory. It could involve reducing\ncommitment to one position to allow growth in another. Or, it could simply be cessation of a\nposition with no back-up. This latter, extreme\nposition is reflected in the definition this post began with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To quit something, in everyday parlance,\ntends to connote negatively. However, as\nthe Society of Physician Entrepreneurs has developed as an organization, we\nhave begun to see quitting as a positive. Why? might you ask. Quitting, at its core, reflects a desire for\nchange. Whether this change is driven by\ninternal or external forces is a determination that the individual has to make,\nbut it would be highly unlikely that change occurs in the absence of the desire\nfor it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I often cite the same mantra when friends\nor trainees approach me with questions about changing positions or taking on\nnew responsibility. When you \u201cquit\u201d\nsomething, make sure you are quitting that position to allow yourself to move\ntowards something that you are excited about. \nQuitting as a mechanism of escaping (in professional environs) generally\ntends not to yield positive results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Think, for one second, of the early stories\nof the Zuckerbergs, Gates, Dells, Allens, etc. \nSome sources estimate that one in four self-made billionaires are\ncollege drop-outs. A desire to make the changes\nthat they felt were important led to life-altering \u201cquits\u201d, if you will. Do you think any one of these people were\nrunning from college? On the contrary,\ntheir passions, and their desire to fix what they felt needed improvement, led\nthem to make a significant decision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Change is best effectuated from those\nwith knowledge of the system they are trying to change. But that is what makes\nmedicine so interesting \u2013 we ALL are armed with some level of medical knowledge\n\u2013 provider, payer or consumer\u2026it\u2019s hard to imagine any other industry where\nalmost every individual participates, except perhaps food and clothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This inherent desire within people for\nchange can serve as a catalyst for idea development, maturation and\ncommercialization. The SoPE Board of\nDirectors strongly believe that most ideas in the medical (and most any) space\nderive from pain points and frustration. \nA person desiring change may find themselves with the opportunity to\naddress that frustration, and perhaps initiate the change that they desire. This usually occurs by some form of quitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quitting can be a wonderful experience if\na person is moving towards a new challenge, new position or addressing an\ninternal frustration. It can lead to wholesale\nlife changes, or change on a smaller scale. \nIn either case, we consider quitting as a step towards\nproblem-solving. We encourage our\nmembership to look to us to allow us to move forward in this exciting process\nwith them, and hope that what is perceived as a negative can actually be shown\nto be a tremendous positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To your entrepreneurship<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sudhen B. Desai, MD<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Sudhen Desai, MD Quit \/kwit\/ verb gerund or present participle: quitting 1. leave (a place), usually permanently. “he was ordered to quit the cabin immediately” synonyms: leave, vacate, exit, depart from, withdraw from; abandon, desert Often, we are faced with the idea of \u201cquitting\u201d. Beyond the dictionary definition above, quitting takes… Lire la suite »<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}