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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''1 s2 @0 Z' m, h/ M3 O& r: M" T7 Z
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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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.
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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."6 c% F5 `' ~2 a8 C/ t
5 ^7 T6 @6 q6 g. e/ C1 \"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.+ U5 i; D, g2 A: Y; P! ~1 l
2 g! G1 u, R U4 t x! _"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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* h4 M5 u8 A. R2 `* L* a9 q t''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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