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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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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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! [' m+ Z# a4 D& @) Z% F$ q''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.* q, T- D4 r2 a: l3 u4 t4 |7 {
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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."+ l; L/ E8 L( }3 L5 z: u
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders." ]- s1 e. u7 f2 p
% P L8 L* Z) m: M% {"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?"0 F( q/ } `& W8 u h/ O9 ^3 `: D5 R
& p" _3 \* e9 I8 G''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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