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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''3 @7 j7 |! v) w
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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+ I7 @4 ^) w0 X% h7 }''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.* \4 A6 w% B. d
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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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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.6 ~ w' f7 ~, F$ S4 O. y
# D$ h6 p1 ~ S# X"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.". I4 }: E" a m8 H+ e' b7 J
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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" S1 S+ G9 R! w9 x''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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