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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''- @- y/ d A8 @ _9 X/ o
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''' W0 b8 F4 {# g* ^
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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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: B v0 n' H1 ~% J! M''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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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."# r2 `5 c$ l4 O: \+ T/ s
: K5 l. m* Y7 Y' c/ y2 R9 B, f"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.1 x4 }. w1 m, n5 r1 G" @" Z# B" r
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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) y" i4 D, U- Q( ]''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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$ _9 h: a1 G. W7 K! j8 M8 f''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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