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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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$ W0 i1 _# H" k) z''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."9 n" ?5 {' ]- s
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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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9 `+ ]& g+ p) [0 M% k"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.9 k7 H0 F0 s$ T9 K- A' H, M9 a- h* P0 g9 h
$ ^ O! u5 j* E9 Q' _8 t6 w"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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* U) ^" l1 w2 v6 G4 a E6 U8 W/ V) R$ P''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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, \3 Z( U$ u) B2 ?2 { p5 G''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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