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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''; |& ?' b9 p; k; {, i, _+ x+ e1 G
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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; a: r' o+ x8 a2 \''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."1 D1 ]. d: l1 g; Q
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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- S5 a/ s5 D, Y/ Q7 R3 B5 g"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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8 D. r _4 x* G# b1 J"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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* }* J$ r( D0 s% C9 C- T"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."6 W- G& O8 i7 [& n: k
/ n" O' I( M, s: C* M0 n1 _''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"6 q5 A2 H# g' t- R0 s+ p, T, }
: \* q _6 y- S9 d4 Z/ `- a/ T q''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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