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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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+ g% q, l% c' N7 U"Mrs. Sanders, please.''$ O. w' i: k( \1 A6 a
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"Speaking."
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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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; N: S3 b4 f/ _4 Q''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.7 W1 u* b; t+ z5 B X7 i( L5 o" z
3 {5 V, C4 B2 `"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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8 N# ^7 p' T7 j5 V0 w' E"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.8 N: r5 N; ]& R+ {; j: d# T
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."# z4 B; i1 c- r# R- F6 ]
) @: o. F/ K/ q. S5 j y, X''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"( Z G% u: u8 O' v
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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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