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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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: _/ X( _7 m' {7 Q' o"Mrs. Sanders, please.''# v9 t4 a4 U& _0 W
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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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$ Q3 d( j- U# s''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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"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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7 @- w$ q8 f$ z''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"0 [+ Z* e6 [8 \8 v! f7 |, A
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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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