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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''2 O& ^( [9 r" \- s3 |: ~2 V. m+ C
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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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# l% K# g. W1 B* i2 k: Y* t''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.$ z. W. J( l9 I$ v3 K1 S
: ~+ j; j; B6 q' B# f"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."$ _6 f2 K" P% v4 ^, W( n: C+ {$ ~
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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9 Z8 k3 d$ \; U( A- \( k$ F''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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