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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''6 t7 |& m" r/ n1 D! ^' Q
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''4 J2 d0 X2 V( F o6 d- v9 b
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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.- a0 s/ a" i p9 y1 c# Z
1 W$ |/ H. g2 E/ C2 |"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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3 \; r8 N4 o* z1 V/ t"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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) W( R8 q. x7 |8 C' U"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."; e: Z( B7 W! r$ ]: r) M
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"1 d5 h0 W' l6 U) z L7 `; 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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