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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''( c; M! p* v; _: y
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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."2 w9 j3 d' Y- T2 f
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.+ ~; x% a4 q; U9 \8 v0 R
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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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3 f# m, |( K$ R! ^"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.5 C% \3 m5 O7 P% M
( Y" S. }& f+ o2 s% s" G"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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9 A( R/ V6 M, I0 M''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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" H5 X/ e" s9 ~ t5 T w6 J7 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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