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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''3 R1 o- {, m/ h% M2 G
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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."# V1 v' |+ M/ y; F3 ~2 v
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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& z8 I7 D% @* 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.- E* o, o ^2 _ k: @. i; l+ }7 @% z& K
2 f( t+ b, W2 Q# Z8 R: T"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."6 q4 L o7 S) c3 T9 Y
9 I0 o z5 S- w% ~# @''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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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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