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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''2 d, w' W; V9 H3 ~2 h0 J4 h; D! {, B
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- k) G, a3 Y$ v% c9 C1 r''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."2 W9 M: o6 h( M Q# O
7 S* ]% X' Q7 ^8 b''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."4 D( I% |9 G8 l/ W- X% n
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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* J! l* H6 V, l''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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