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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''/ M( M1 E( R9 Z) q2 y: B
1 c- x9 b* ]. H# Q2 ]"Mrs. Sanders, please.''6 D! z0 @- r7 [8 d/ w( k1 t; M
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- x" P1 I% [$ r1 O! v! W! P''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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$ R/ E( f+ l" o7 c7 D# X7 R. o1 u4 p1 W''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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0 U7 x$ Z$ ?, G0 C' ~+ c: g H"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."( Y# r0 t' Q" s2 x
0 t) j9 y( j2 W. m! Z* C"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.". y! J6 M* M6 N' C
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"- `" k W, n0 t2 x$ N
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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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