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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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" I7 x8 ]% Y' q; Q7 ?"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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( u1 V3 i) e8 G"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."
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+ q8 c0 x, G0 p5 W''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.9 p, S2 _2 F ^) D3 }
; o8 ?# H+ ^3 y7 z8 |: e6 \"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."% c; E; L. I! r, m4 J
/ E4 x6 d2 l# H9 a# Z+ K! e"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.; g9 r: V1 p, B
) V7 ^- k, `; ]/ I"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?"/ @6 {3 \6 B4 R' L! N
5 n2 Q& H& [& j, W E''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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