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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.'', W* Y6 v z' v: c. F% D3 M
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''* Q; r7 J. |2 c- s# T
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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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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.: i, u, V! f5 h* A; d" u
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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."' I0 x; a7 ~5 r! v6 L8 i+ G
' G2 w1 a) v* Q/ o"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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7 ~) T6 x- m0 h# B5 L7 U''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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; Q+ e" G& S* u# F0 N5 P''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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