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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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8 A* I: Z' h$ f, @& j''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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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.+ T9 S1 I+ q% g4 ] u' A9 N
4 k7 N. L( {& s% s0 t"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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( {0 b( C9 @& j A. y& j3 p* o l"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."+ q @5 j5 F3 R# r" R
. M0 x- H E v$ L8 V+ V''Well, what am I supposed to do now?", i: n5 [# r: B: 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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