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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''" }9 T; {4 E# [3 m3 V. u) }
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''9 p0 v% j$ Z/ m
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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."
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.0 I6 k! n, E h! f
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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.
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.") j1 {. C- r# M9 i9 ~0 O
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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" m: x( [3 e% \: _6 d. P- R [''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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