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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''. u0 C- s) z" N6 X, F) E
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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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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously./ x' B: _9 J& `+ B0 m6 c. b
4 Y# A% C! { ~! {" M$ N) `% q"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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# C' {7 p& q% m( S$ A: w) F- W"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."( c- ^# \9 r3 E8 @8 M b/ P
9 N" M+ F, H# @7 T' f( P''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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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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