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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''$ Z0 n2 B- Z. {3 J" ?
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''; B) X2 F; S, K0 P* Q" s% Q" E" H, p
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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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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.5 X/ g# \6 E! G4 w
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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."' k, T, k7 h9 w6 B5 ^% v3 F
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.4 n+ G% \; O" [ i
, N4 \ P3 s i"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."5 O; d$ j: A- R9 q7 ]5 D) }' R3 b3 S7 Y7 c
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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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