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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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) B+ c- B4 C) @9 H% }"Mrs. Sanders, please.''
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& Z; [" Z/ k6 T"Speaking."
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# _# X- s$ y2 j( w''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."& K4 s, \1 U2 W" `0 h3 b: D3 v
- n: ?) C. g) H5 Q- u& S+ j- r1 {$ v( O''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.+ \$ K# p+ a: k7 w. L
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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 h( O z1 j' j* j0 k
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.8 E! \: N. q) J
/ g/ I# s5 G6 y"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."* ]3 m7 H# l# O1 m9 G& H/ I
. |( B- C+ N0 v& H8 h' e* c''Well, what am I supposed to do now?", G9 ^% I- n2 G, b, o- l
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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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