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2 O, @, l0 v1 w"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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% }, P- D* ?/ n/ N) h1 M''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.
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1 o8 J" L8 w1 i M Z"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.1 O7 k, _' G& y! ?$ [6 `* E
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."! `6 {9 d, ?' b# R7 Y3 f
" t- k% v3 }- X E0 i2 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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