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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''5 r* [2 E; c4 `' _/ u G
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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* x4 E' Y0 i) p: a( }''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."0 d2 v; Z; N' v9 u
4 c6 q# T. t! E( D''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.) y. H7 R7 T9 X. S$ c4 ^8 u ]
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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."- J& p% M. U8 H
u2 {2 E! z* X! j9 E"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.9 y% `' F% U# s5 a1 s
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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$ i8 P3 E/ t# Q; Z' a''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"2 c( l3 ~! c' n
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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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