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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''; y9 R' l) Z0 d' x
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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."& e0 ^3 J% {6 i; Z- K- n8 I) I, F% }
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.0 N# A3 J! u/ g
* H$ M" I1 W) ^# h- D3 ?"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.") M0 \( }9 v; W5 ~
3 a7 B9 m% _7 v' ]2 p"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.4 w8 X( t5 Y d% p& p' f
( M5 d3 C5 V" {9 P3 i"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."! |7 \, ?! t5 B( M) I! S7 D
0 e0 {* q1 @" m! n''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"4 q' x, T. Q6 q/ e
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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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