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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.'', r$ y; g" H' L- K
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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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."3 y5 Z: ?( Q- w! U, Q! u W4 g
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.% g% t0 k% ]: a- V3 O# ~) I9 C
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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."
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' a; `; L3 v' J3 g' {( ]"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.# Y5 B' h# C6 w0 u$ U
/ \6 j. \# B, v# j J6 W"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."0 y3 J m; \% E/ T" S# X' k
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"% [+ i5 w3 j5 x- r- S% T7 Q
* v1 }7 Y6 ~' L5 N% m4 E''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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