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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''' |9 `. X5 O {# Z F5 Z7 Y7 g9 i) W
! o3 A- f& [6 [; u; m* q"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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3 k ]5 Q% `7 P1 a"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."/ Z" O* `) p6 z. y: C/ n
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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* @+ _' T9 }. g# P"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."# B, m4 E. }+ z2 J/ w% X( ?
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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1 @8 U) J& a! c, w"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?"# |+ }2 Q( G. T2 Q; G
# w; r0 X0 W: E8 g$ P* B. _; b''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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