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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''* w1 E, v/ M9 d
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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* w6 E) e8 L( g6 G$ _6 }0 K5 ^''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."% e' d2 @# s6 v; W( z
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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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."5 C6 I' R2 @' p! Y
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.; c# x" E+ ~4 _4 G; u
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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?"
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4 M) ^" C$ |% d''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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