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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''1 e3 O. J% a/ z8 [3 R. j2 q3 I
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''- h$ s+ j; n1 Z) m8 \
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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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# y4 V7 S0 H7 g. f& Q''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.& v' G) Z* x, W6 ]: a
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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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* T2 x7 Q: W7 O9 R- }3 x: U B) @"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.+ L4 U5 }% a. A5 w
! |: t6 ^: t7 _"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."2 ?4 t) N4 N' w* Z
2 \6 l5 H/ Z% \% I, [% `1 X( Y''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"; |' r8 c8 ?/ T; _! q, J
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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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