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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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"Speaking."
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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."( l7 k2 i; N# H K0 C; r
; F K1 |( t/ f0 g; S''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.1 J! c- B0 y( {
, g, ?5 [6 ~, S' V6 Y"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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* j7 n n) U O9 F' a. ["That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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% v; I( I& q; N: F- b' _4 O# J! ~"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."7 K' B( ~; F: w9 J4 T9 Z% a9 h
# ~3 i* w" V& V$ o0 R''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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