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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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''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."- [6 l% _! Q; @! s
% P: n5 T% @3 e( d% O3 S9 U1 n; z7 D''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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/ c8 \2 Y8 b# \4 K3 A0 y"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."/ p: D3 Z N" `4 C
/ t5 C9 c% J$ A4 m3 C4 i; G"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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! ]9 o! d& l$ q: n! U* Y"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."4 R' o# R) j3 j2 U1 U
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''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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