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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''" G/ T5 u" O( w/ Y# {4 ]
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''4 [/ O, w0 C/ E9 \3 \4 f
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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.- b, g+ \6 G: Q: s
T" P7 k$ X, b4 v$ | L: `/ ?. u/ D"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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/ h( \! c9 v4 F) M" C- v) U( |" S"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.", ^. h+ }5 ]" N& P: H
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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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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