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Some clinics allow patients to pay in bitcoin — but find little demand

The way of the future? Some doctors' offices let patients pay with bitcoin.
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As the value of bitcoin climbed last year, so too did its public prominence. Still, the cryptocurrency isn’t accepted in all that many brick-and-mortar shops. But a smattering of clinics across the U.S. have started taking the currency, allowing patients to pay their medical bills or their copays with bitcoin — though, in many cases, they aren’t getting any takers.

My Doctor Medical Group, a practice of seven of physicians with an office in San Francisco, has allowed

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