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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''$ m6 ]# }5 N/ \4 O2 ?' ?/ F! E
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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."6 ?, d3 s; `4 [4 e9 b. r. _
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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/ y7 ]" E, \+ P+ q' u+ B2 q"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."0 {% E3 r6 n0 T- j {/ n
/ S6 j9 t7 C! D4 M/ [9 ^"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders. D9 f$ z% q0 \4 q; }% n
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.", F, q3 U6 }/ W5 l
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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8 ]8 w+ S* @" z% s7 b2 O''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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