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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''4 @1 e1 G* `; `1 s3 O6 l- Y
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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.") E$ \% L1 y3 j! X0 [# k1 E
' B% j6 h5 I1 b. w# c''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously." P; K, k9 d* Y/ K. {' p1 z
0 c: L$ ?4 h" X5 x9 D; l"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.! m. N* n5 F# i0 d9 X k+ p# q
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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?"
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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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