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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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"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."" L8 y) G8 N$ }
6 b' Y. i0 {; m7 Z''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously." a& R2 z! }' [# |
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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.": F5 s$ b7 H1 ] g+ V5 j
! _# A! Y. K; ~0 H! P2 ?5 c. D"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.9 p* }8 L) }. X
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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?"
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''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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