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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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( p5 G s* z6 g''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."% v) q* ^. k; v7 C) K
/ S4 k6 y/ ^( {3 y''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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5 Z# [0 z$ `, I; i"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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N& k1 }) W/ t''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"$ i( _+ d5 n" X2 Y Z: `3 |6 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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