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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''. m! J4 ^/ M* N; Y8 S- w, O& j
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% C. @/ w! n0 X0 w) S9 J' |) {0 t''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.
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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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8 X1 Y A: T1 x% G5 A# w2 x F"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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$ [: G; K" S# [; D4 S0 S! i- g( o7 P"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."6 k3 U) T1 M* b, d7 \9 X) ?5 y8 f5 r2 Y; O( M
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"$ w9 L; g+ h2 h! p) H& G
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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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