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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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! r" s h9 _2 X/ U L"Mrs. Sanders, please.''1 X4 q" j. b( T0 C/ G( S# ]. A1 l
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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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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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/ `6 j2 @( q8 [- I& q"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."2 Y7 q4 {8 s% f
, A; F" O" S, n1 f, J* F7 I"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/ O4 s0 v: G- i
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"* @' O% ?. z7 t' ]
0 N8 R0 V; k! i" b! \''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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