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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''% Q! Q+ R1 W+ E* a F# y: P# l* Z
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.'' | A8 e+ X, H. a2 W( u2 s5 Z. @
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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.": W4 {% V# j$ b
' ?9 f2 r" S0 C6 V% ]5 f''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.: Y" v; K g/ g8 m: u) o+ c
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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."6 n4 n5 i* N' Q8 B
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time." g, L; g8 v3 A4 q& X( x2 k
5 Q$ g8 j* F1 ]. M''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"& X& p" W7 [/ l- W' @ v N
+ c0 Z) R0 k9 R' T5 G: C, ~2 s2 w& Z4 P6 h''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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