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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''5 e9 _: ~+ B: b2 Z$ Z8 l* ^
7 ^' ~0 s# U% P: c# \: y/ {5 T. C4 o"Mrs. Sanders, please.''$ v T* O( F/ L$ P1 ^! ?6 [6 z( s: U
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2 A& `: P2 r" ^- ^8 g''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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/ \# R2 `) m4 g! K''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously., n3 d+ l$ a; k' W* v
- |( a- m/ G- O+ n# ["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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6 ~3 A; k: r. T, L# Q"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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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?" }1 E# D# [# J3 D
. K0 E$ b: @: o4 w( L+ x$ ?''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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