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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''1 s3 ]: A7 z, @$ J
3 u/ A# D- |( T) h( w4 ?" j"Mrs. Sanders, please.''( O+ E$ q/ \7 |) [. _! i% k) j
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! Q2 Z3 y2 D* W, U' M) 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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. c- Q% j, D( g"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." ^! T2 W' z5 {3 e F
; O8 H1 c/ t" W+ C$ C"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.) a4 r! k* B: E2 l0 y) l
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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?": @+ h- B. W) E$ W4 y, ^/ J* B* D$ K
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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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