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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, "Hello.''
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( n$ h2 e# c, o; W4 [" h" ]9 ["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."
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. I( f( U) @# X3 P8 e''What do you mean?" Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.& h# ?# |- R0 ]& b' L- P3 z, B; d
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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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" F4 W+ Y( N/ p2 X( C' C"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Sanders.5 X* h1 i, _+ z C1 Y+ v9 i6 m
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"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."& ~" ]9 n( c: e+ H
5 k- l4 C2 t1 [''Well, what am I supposed to do now?"/ u# {& o9 J& r L1 y; v
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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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