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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''& n- ? V( L4 m( n
9 [2 B1 M* Y5 v$ R2 ~"Mrs. Sanders, please.''$ i }/ |3 H3 t5 ~ m" F6 r! T
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! H0 I4 e, X. I4 K) k5 ]2 _''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.7 K$ ?( t7 W! p/ q
. k: _8 X% H. _"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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3 C1 c. m# }$ A"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.) b4 w( @6 m8 W( U2 }( v- ~
& e0 H; O+ D/ A0 u- Z"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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. ~ B! [' L/ T8 y; z''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"+ \- O7 {+ S' e: h+ l
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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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