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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''- E$ Y: B! A) C9 ]( }# h
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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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."1 E, N# h- f% I' |! u$ Q
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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."
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; s u1 a9 a3 E: }! d"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.$ Y1 O' r1 o7 ]/ W$ I ~* ?3 U
" g5 i. A3 E4 Y, K* a* ~"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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" R# _6 n/ A9 c# k1 q$ T0 h''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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