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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''6 T% S: _% Y) ?$ P
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."8 T1 `4 d' ]" t/ t7 i% u+ O6 ] ?
! v6 z/ m3 m1 R9 t1 h''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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6 b6 }) a: B, L# B. b''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.3 K3 ~9 g+ \- c. a* Z: J
( O' s5 v+ ]) }8 u"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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: ]% d$ A, V/ z9 ]! u& {"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.3 {5 V1 X) j: z; Z) ?
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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''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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