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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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8 j5 p; x; C0 P2 z q# |/ B I5 s"Mrs. Sanders, please.''3 } N. P% D8 @4 h( F& K
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5 N' J- v/ r8 Y+ d# k* M''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./ s5 Z8 Q. I0 d( g
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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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( O% {( U, [. b2 v% ], ~# G; t"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.4 {1 y' d+ o c# y# ^3 L5 S& `
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."7 \$ e% z# N& J
! H2 [5 L i; Y) o& n2 w1 d/ u''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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( b4 e3 x6 ?8 g* [* n; _" H" i! m''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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