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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''6 T9 a0 @; C# m! l# G0 p
9 ~/ h5 f H1 s8 F% U"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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''Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory. When your doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the lab yesterday, a biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well, and we are now uncertain which one is your husband's. Frankly the results are either bad or terrible."
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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) k! Q4 P$ T, U }4 E0 x"Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the other one tested positive for AIDS. We can't tell which is your husband's."
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."+ w5 M b* a# Q6 G
8 q3 U" h6 l7 e% p, W''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"+ y) Z/ c1 k5 |$ y1 f! K3 Q
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''The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him |
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