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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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. E; ]& r3 f. Y3 X"Mrs. Sanders, please.''0 _, |# X5 r1 f/ h5 c
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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."% N$ w1 d' D1 v+ ^$ k/ Y* O
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.; ?# N$ I3 Z$ L$ ~+ x! K
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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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' W: f7 T- m3 f/ }& ~$ v' T"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.8 S' g, i* F1 h. p( x. W) Q. B
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.": E& n! H3 F, i( M4 Z2 K
) s. F' r0 q0 F- y# t8 v. ~+ h''Well, what am I supposed to do now?" @. M' W% x+ d/ c0 s
. h Q V9 e3 K P''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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