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 The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''! n& y' B5 K) o# G! F
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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."
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, D6 c% [1 V* y: L''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.
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0 t C. V) [+ C5 p/ [* ?2 e"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."& W I4 c5 ~0 n1 M% f8 k
- s+ u! }8 b& i$ F"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders., J4 x, K; I# J, @* Y
* h& N9 ?; @$ [/ J% W1 E6 |$ q1 M"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
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/ o' A" Y7 a! y- Q& ?''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"4 A- S0 D6 `4 z, V/ l0 k
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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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