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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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8 w8 \% `) y$ I) k"Speaking."
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1 K; R2 I W) P# g6 ^9 G* L''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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: z- e1 _5 j. m' {$ V- V5 G {# R''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.
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6 B$ I% n0 E& X N, E" d"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?"$ { ?' k3 Z2 f& y; K/ c! O
3 k8 ^9 ^4 |- W0 C: r1 w! W''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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