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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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4 ` Q1 b0 H4 E4 Y) t2 Z8 A! @9 t& _"Mrs. Sanders, please.''( K' k" R3 d( V0 \8 `* C
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+ N5 v2 b4 O# L1 ^# 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.") I* Q8 ^5 R3 G/ R
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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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1 q) D. K: K% c7 P9 A"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.( e8 T0 n2 j5 X+ r$ o6 O. d" ]
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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' ]' ~* f2 J5 t0 h) j3 K5 x$ o/ V" v''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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