BNC Text H4G

Medical consultations. Sample containing about 192 words speech recorded in public context


2 speakers recorded by respondent number C283

PS1YE Ag5 m (No name, age 60, general practitioner) unspecified
PS1YF X f (No name, age unknown, receptionist) unspecified

1 recordings

  1. Tape 090906 recorded on 1993-04-13. LocationStrathclyde: Glasgow ( doctor's surgery ) Activity: medical consultation

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(PS1YF) [1] Can I give you [...] out there.
[2] ... Er for five thirty.
[3] That one [...] that's waiting.
[4] ... [...] Thank you very much.
[5] What happened was that it was the son and I couldn't get [...] [laugh] [laughing] he was given [...] and he's never had it in his life [] .
[6] The wee man must have asked for it. ...
(PS1YE) [7] No.
[8] He probably told you that just to explain things.
(PS1YF) [9] But it was a wee thing.
[10] He wouldn't.
(PS1YE) [11] [laugh] But the computer would do it.
[12] It would get our own computer printout [...] .
(PS1YF) [13] I don't know [...] [whispering] [...] [] ... But pandemonium this afternoon.
[14] How do you remain so calm when there're all these things?
(PS1YE) [...] ...
(PS1YF) [15] How do you manage it?
(PS1YE) [16] What's the point in getting them all stuffy about it?
(PS1YF) [17] But there's hundreds of people
(PS1YE) [...]
(PS1YF) [18] out there.
(PS1YE) [19] Ah.
[20] Take it as it comes.
[21] Just
(PS1YF) [22] Ah.
(PS1YE) [23] take it as it comes.
(PS1YF) [24] [...] that [...] .
[25] Oh aye that's the one Sandra's [...]
(PS1YE) [...]
(PS1YF) [26] it should have been a hundred or something.
(PS1YE) [27] Mm.
[28] Don't know why because it just means he has to take
(PS1YF) [29] Ah.
(PS1YE) [30] it three times a day instead of once. ...
(PS1YF) [31] Thank you very much Doctor .
[32] I'll give them to [...]
(PS1YE) [33] Right.
[34] Jus [...]
(PS1YF) [35] [...] copy to you the first time [...]
(PS1YE) [36] Yeah.
[37] Please.