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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''2 D. y+ g& _" Z* Y; ~" k- p# l! d
1 I& R( y: C- M* P W" g( k"Mrs. Sanders, please.''& C6 r4 L# x+ H2 S
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/ ^+ Z a" A. {/ g- Y0 ?( }: r/ a; k''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."
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.2 U4 U% n* E5 S& z6 |
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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9 L$ U/ F% N! H8 F0 y''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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