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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''( [5 r, f: c: z! W9 ]) J" _( w b
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''* g0 S k+ u) B* `4 O& T+ A0 @9 f
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"Speaking."
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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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, u( X' Q! [* c7 A2 q5 H''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.' R7 c4 h% p$ }5 v
# b7 e. d# S4 H R8 \: {, ]) O"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."4 ~! ]- I* v) }6 T6 L: p
" B# ^1 w& [1 p1 K: l# E2 p"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.0 l% i( U. j, A
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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?"% D4 F* a% t5 [$ R
. O- F5 \, `1 c! x2 k% 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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