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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''9 u8 ^, ]# Y# H, N$ T/ V/ j0 s
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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( i5 `. m6 ?7 Y''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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2 _) p2 J3 y9 B" ^; O3 M''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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9 k6 `$ S1 p, K"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."3 I* U# k8 q8 @9 o
. J, M5 {8 }4 n5 M"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.7 M" o' [; F) Y2 Y5 I9 X$ |' h
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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8 s0 }7 g9 M5 I''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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4 C2 R% Q* J, P''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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