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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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: {% o) H8 o3 x" r) b5 s2 e"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."% }0 ]4 N# Y: ^5 D3 V; Z+ W, L/ j
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.: O }5 d; S0 O3 D6 H i
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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."
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$ l4 Y4 }: M' D; a+ |"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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* u2 D1 c% Y1 V! J' }"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."2 V) b8 t; N% ], U' ^
* f% w2 D( d0 U3 P) O+ g''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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