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When a physician decides that he or she wants to go part-time, the decision often throws a proverbial wrench into the practice works. Although part-time employment is a reasonable request in most businesses, in the physician practice world, it can disrupt a productivity-based practice's whole financial structure, often resulting in an awkward dilemma for groups wanting to accommodate valued physicians yet needing to keep their financials on track.