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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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"Mrs. Sanders, please.''- S& a! L7 W- r
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) s$ w+ O9 |. U* Q# l0 q0 R9 [6 T''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." s7 w$ _4 u1 y0 T z @
1 Y% r$ q; l0 @; A, j; g''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."' r1 p+ ^& {- s! h
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"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.
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3 |4 l! d8 l: n: |4 d1 A: F"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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% w9 Y, K* W. D7 C: _''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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