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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''0 }8 A3 q: K3 {* v
) a: d( p3 I/ q: Y"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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/ w8 U& A9 g6 z2 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."
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$ F5 v4 u! x' Q. {$ h6 L''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.$ C& s# u+ f c: p' n' H, c
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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."0 K( M# L) ?. G% y
/ N% I9 Q" i( N @* S& O"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.* \0 B. a/ G' p X* l h7 V( d" [( n
* S u, D$ \$ O"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."1 E' _$ M, {7 s, f% V) Q4 Q( {
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?") @+ _& ]! d0 S+ q+ v1 ?1 d
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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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