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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''! P3 V5 u% R6 X! p. r: l
# h5 l/ x& N, T( V7 C9 H"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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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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4 r( t& J0 g; c# f* ?; {& O''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.+ o4 n, U$ }# R. g% v6 v5 [
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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."2 J5 Y" S1 r# `. {* n3 n
. x2 K- c9 J. W% j z4 s0 `1 a9 h) \"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders. M) `; O. i: O. X$ C; P O
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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! f( h* _, e- B" o, Q''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"' n0 q* n, v* A8 X/ @% ^
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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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