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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''. Z5 k4 I& q" ^6 U1 N4 C8 h$ O
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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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."! F# k( X0 O8 O7 S
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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% X9 H8 K' 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."
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.$ d+ m9 G) ?+ i9 g
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."; {( i2 r1 \! L& X. p0 `
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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9 h0 o. [/ i/ e' Z$ ~''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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