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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''4 t! O4 v' W, o
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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"Speaking."
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- i$ \/ \* q1 V, Q' z''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." V7 [0 m, ^4 K! I `% |
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''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.! W/ f) K% j6 E
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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."% ~8 V& ~+ G3 I6 Y& l
: ^% A% j8 q: u( W$ y"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.3 o2 {1 V1 F7 h& Z& J
- M; R0 z, `! r9 }5 @0 ]! d- U5 i. i"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."9 N; u: J! n, ~! a% F
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''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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