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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''- N6 I! `1 Z* r3 n; _& H+ Q- t
9 |2 N& o& }8 A"Mrs. Sanders, please.''" v, Z7 z [4 p
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7 g- w- Q. R% z# P6 c8 \% o''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." k4 D& z4 L/ @6 }1 E8 s, m9 f
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.6 j5 d2 o2 N, q' ^: }
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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."! U9 u0 Q, w4 b5 ]' ?4 }
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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."
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?") V- m3 k! N7 o R0 Y
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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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