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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''1 Q9 }; @7 k4 z/ W( ~( i& B' `) C
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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9 N/ b) Y* L% f2 h D8 s"Speaking.". m2 a. I$ S; ~: @6 ~4 g5 S- y
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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."- m, l# j; f9 F" w. E9 f
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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7 W. ~* C4 U* f"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."/ O7 L# j# j9 M* r. g2 C5 n r
( Q2 V& v0 M# Z% N c"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."2 k. |. ^: ]9 {+ Q: v, l# U
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?") H- o* I, a7 Z- s0 Y
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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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