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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''" Y, V7 @, E' c% r
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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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+ r) \5 d- T; k Q2 r; [) @''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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8 b& E% h, u+ F: C3 r"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."$ s: u0 w3 N5 V8 C- P v- v
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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8 v; b0 E* X; E, e9 C k8 p"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."$ q& {% M! f& W0 E1 ~2 u
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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) S& y; X' l3 {; e, [! {''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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