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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''9 u3 S4 j4 \( X: X( b8 L: H8 |
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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."' o/ n( V' v; o6 H+ S* S, U
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.0 ^2 `9 P0 O! K V1 Z
9 Q* |4 J P2 @* e0 p3 W2 l! F"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."- X# o0 |, K0 w- p4 n' r! C
" N8 |1 `! A" g( `: p. { v1 V) f: h"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."9 W! H: Y8 G, n( b/ u* W m
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''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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