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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''- Q# l% I# H( r, z
2 l& p6 y7 J: ^ V7 A: T6 q8 }/ l( i"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." _; a' B# m! X* q* n, G7 X, y ^0 L
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''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."7 A2 x9 c5 d' x3 G
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.& Y4 f7 Q R& M1 s4 w% Y
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
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* D9 [0 Z! f! l, [( k3 W9 U''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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