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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''* E3 i2 E2 O1 J% q: o m: S! B) p
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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8 B& l2 p/ s1 f0 U1 y''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.
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! h4 K+ x) N" b/ o0 B$ R"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 H. Y* m* i" G& p4 q* E' c% }
1 R0 W* c5 p; f"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."4 `4 `; K. N7 k0 v; z( E
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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% D4 a% a; e% w0 Z# {''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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