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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''* A" k: E( M Z6 z
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"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.", K: w u4 S9 w" d4 [ ~
$ V4 r* l, h! |; D6 g''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously./ u! i' X. C6 }" d- E6 X* D% \% ^
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"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.' n9 s& b: k; Z, R1 ?6 e' c
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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?": w6 X, f+ X2 W
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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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