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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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+ ^2 h4 U, U) B. ^2 s''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."5 [" X1 @' a1 ]* V! a2 V! z
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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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.", h. v5 W a+ m r4 s. ?+ s
' H) D4 t' x' j7 z# ~" O/ G"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."0 l$ n+ _" c8 Q" A
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"9 C, C) M' m, |
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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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