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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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''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."' w' [0 A2 D7 A7 o7 B, H R% R; V
- q! j a/ U& l' ?0 r6 s, x''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.$ K. t# a2 B8 t5 [4 |
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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."
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2 {" M( Q8 y( p* S"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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' `9 V A& U. ?! i' f# O9 z"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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. C D) h' ?$ A7 o''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"0 |$ `& m1 v# s5 o. U
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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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