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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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7 i9 K! p5 v- u5 G* Q! x v"Mrs. Sanders, please.''+ m2 B2 ?6 @2 t+ w. |
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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."3 g( N) r) P- W z
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously. P( k/ o; H* |* ^ p+ q) p
& {! D$ g6 A& w"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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4 q5 L3 F( I0 q3 l"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.- [$ `! }9 F6 _$ Y- \7 A) x
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?": I# Z: Z" n+ q9 d
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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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