Paying the doctor in Zimbabwe.

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Paying the Doctor in Zimbabwe: Scrawny chickens, squirming goats, and sacks of peanuts are acceptable payments at the Chidamoyo Christian Hospital in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans began relying heavily on barter in 2008, when runaway inflation rendered the country's currency worthless. Thirty years of brutal rule under President Robert Mugabe has destroyed the...

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