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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''; Z- G6 O' ^2 J& ~0 N/ m+ ` Q" R5 T- z
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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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( ~" J4 }5 h6 b0 k! y+ B! I+ u''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.! ]1 i$ Y6 H9 W' c6 _9 w4 }
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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."7 W2 z u' F" E# h0 e" m g. E
: r, @( w1 p. T"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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; x) V2 G: V/ U- l; Y"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."& e% ? V, H9 j) f$ ~; B
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?". P3 b* N( R, ^# H0 q
8 D" o, J* K0 V''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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