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Medical consultations. Sample containing about 459 words speech recorded in public context


4 speakers recorded by respondent number C286

PS1YN Ag5 m (No name, age 60, general practitioner) unspecified
PS1YP X m (Alec, age unknown) unspecified
H4KPSUNK (respondent W0000) X u (Unknown speaker, age unknown) other
H4KPSUGP (respondent W000M) X u (Group of unknown speakers, age unknown) other

1 recordings

  1. Tape 090909 recorded on 1993-04-13. LocationStrathclyde: Glasgow ( doctor's surgery ) Activity: medical consultation

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Alec (PS1YP) [...]
(PS1YN) [1] Of course.
[2] ... Of course.
[3] It wouldn't be the same place if I wasn't.
[4] It wouldn't be the same place if I wasn't.
Alec (PS1YP) [...]
(PS1YN) [5] [...] .
[6] I never should have [...] .
[7] What's this? ... [...] [...]
Alec (PS1YP) [8] Oh she's [...] .
[9] [...] . Give me strength.
[10] [...] er it was my stomach.
(PS1YN) [11] Mhm.
Alec (PS1YP) [12] I think I must have picked up a virus [...] .
(PS1YN) [13] Sure did.
Alec (PS1YP) [14] Cos I was passing it [...] ... [...] so she gave me a couple of tablets.
[15] She er gave me some [...] .
(PS1YN) [16] Mm.
[17] Yeah. ...
Alec (PS1YP) [18] Still a bit of diarrhoea in the mornings.
(PS1YN) [19] Still a bit loose in the morning are you?
Alec (PS1YP) [20] Aye.
[21] Still loose in the mornings.
[22] ... That's the worst I've ever had mind. ... [...] [...]
(PS1YN) [...]
Alec (PS1YP) [23] [...] the older you get th y you imagine it's worse.
[24] You know? ...
(PS1YN) [25] Once it's past twenty one.
Alec (PS1YP) [26] Aye.
[27] Well you maybe think it's worse [...] .
(PS1YN) [laugh] ...
Alec (PS1YP) [28] [laughing] [...] in the morning but then after the diarrhoea stopped it was a kind of sickness you know [] ?
[29] You ... you'd bru you'd got nothing left there to do anything else with cos you'd
(PS1YN) [30] That's right.
Alec (PS1YP) [31] And you were
(PS1YN) [32] That's right.
Alec (PS1YP) [33] feeling as it were ready to come up [...] the way you were [...] ... swallowing it you could feel it.
[34] Oh it's [...] .
[35] ... The wife come in she stays up around the corner and keeps an eye on the [...] on a Saturday.
(PS1YN) [...]
Alec (PS1YP) [36] [...] on a Sunday though.
[37] [...] I've made a soup.
(PS1YN) [...]
Alec (PS1YP) [38] [...] ... [...] .
[39] She says I don't know [...] .
[40] [...] . So when Bobby says, are you gonna give me, are you gonna give [...]
(PS1YN) [41] Aha.
Alec (PS1YP) [42] Aye.
[43] [...] . [...] I tell her and she says, well look, get another line from your doctor.
[44] Er ... I phoned her at work [...] at the tribunal.
(PS1YN) [45] Aha.
Alec (PS1YP) [46] I phoned her and I says to her I says, [...] .
[47] She said, well look, go back to your doctor [...] she says.
[48] Don't quote me, she says.
(PS1YN) [49] Mm.
Alec (PS1YP) [50] I said, if you'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal. [...]
(PS1YN) [51] One of these capsules after your breakfast in the morning
Alec (PS1YP) [52] Mm.
(PS1YN) [53] and after your cup of tea at five o'clock.
Alec (PS1YP) [54] Right.
(PS1YN) [55] [...] settle.
Alec (PS1YP) [56] Will it?
(PS1YN) [57] Settle the [...] .
Alec (PS1YP) [58] [...] [...] a cup of coffee that I'm ready to get on.
(PS1YN) [59] That's right.
Alec (PS1YP) [60] First thing [...]
(PS1YN) [61] Yes.
Alec (PS1YP) [62] make a cup of coffee in the morning you know.
(PS1YN) [63] Aye.
[64] Well that's why you're to take that as soon as you get, as soon as you start [...] morning.
Alec (PS1YP) [65] [...] this morning what I'd done this morning was just [...] dancing about cos I, I had to go to the toilet I couldn't wait [laugh]
(PS1YN) [laugh]
Alec (PS1YP) [66] [laughing] and I was dancing about [] and I said, I'm not gonna make it.
[67] [...] with that cup of coffee and, oh yes you are. ...
(PS1YN) [68] [laugh] [laughing] Oh []
Alec (PS1YP) [69] She's a bad woman.
(PS1YN) [70] She's a bad woman.
Alec (PS1YP) [71] She is.
[72] I was purple.
(PS1YN) [...]
Alec (PS1YP) [...] [...]
(PS1YN) [73] That's terr oh that's terrible.
[74] Oh that's hard.
Alec (PS1YP) [75] And that's [...] .
(PS1YN) [76] Aye. [laugh]
Alec (PS1YP) [...]
Unknown speaker (H4KPSUNK) [77] Mm.
(PS1YN) [laugh]
Alec (PS1YP) [laugh] [laughing] [...] []
(PS1YN) [78] Right Alec.
Alec (PS1YP) [79] Cheerio then.
(PS1YN) [80] [laughing] Cheerio now [] . [laugh]