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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''' `4 _6 z% I! r
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''& V4 N) v% H# O' k
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"Speaking."
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5 B8 w$ s7 m9 e" F6 F- J7 G. x- x''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./ r3 f7 c2 s+ z! b, R
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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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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.5 }5 W* A: K) ?. g! ?
( k% f/ I/ n2 M- x% Y"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."6 q, b/ Q/ `; N# y% u" Z+ U: O1 s; s
0 l e+ U# w y4 @& K" \''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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