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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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"Speaking."/ |6 u+ m" O! \+ D& D
" V$ H% n; K& m2 u''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." R, o1 r0 F! F$ E' ]
) f% ~1 v4 C( U9 S* h''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."
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.3 X4 I" [2 N$ H6 k- n
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."4 {3 s+ N d5 k. k/ ?) w
8 R# ^* z6 D" ~''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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