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Medical consultations. Sample containing about 518 words speech recorded in public context


2 speakers recorded by respondent number C288

PS1YT Ag5 m (No name, age 60, general practitioner) unspecified
PS1YU X f (No name, age unknown) unspecified

1 recordings

  1. Tape 090911 recorded on 1993-04-13. LocationStrathclyde: Glasgow ( doctor's surgery ) Activity: medical consultation

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(PS1YU) [1] Good evening [...] .
(PS1YT) [2] Good evening.
(PS1YU) [3] [...] awful busy today.
(PS1YT) [4] Oh.
(PS1YU) [5] Murder? [laugh]
(PS1YT) [6] Well and what can I do for you young lady?
(PS1YU) [7] Erm ... well actually what I wanted was a repeat of my prescription, but I wondered why the last time I had one I got sixty instead of a hundred that I got before [...] ?
[8] I wondered if there was a reason, if they were
(PS1YT) [...]
(PS1YU) [9] trying to put me off it or not [laughing] but [] [laugh]
(PS1YT) [10] It's down here as a hundred.
(PS1YU) [11] No I only got sixty.
[12] I haven't got the bottle with me because I was away.
[13] ... I only got sixty and I didn't get any [...] the last time.
[14] [...] have sixty [...] but I didn't get any the last time.
[15] When was that?
[16] No.
[17] I've had a prescription since then Doctor . ...
(PS1YT) [18] [sigh] ... [whispering] Let's see what they've been doing to you [] . ...
(PS1YU) [19] It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen [laughing] days [] . [laugh]
(PS1YT) [20] Tt.
[21] [whispering] It's not gonna tell me [] . ...
(PS1YU) [22] [whispering] [...] [] ?
(PS1YT) [23] It doesn't like you at all.
(PS1YU) [24] Oh dear.
[25] [laugh] [laughing] I'm not here [] . [laugh]
(PS1YT) [26] You're invisible.
(PS1YU) [27] [laughing] Oh gee thanks [] .
(PS1YT) [28] You're invisible.
(PS1YU) [29] [cough] No just a wee bit off not invisible completely thank you.
(PS1YT) [30] Ah.
[31] According to t according to this you're invisible. ...
(PS1YU) [cough] ...
(PS1YT) [32] [...] .
[33] Tt.
[34] Stupid machine.
[35] Can't be doing with that way down there.
[36] ... That should ... it's found you at last.
(PS1YU) [37] It's found me.
[38] Oh so I am
(PS1YT) [39] [...] at last.
(PS1YU) [40] here.
[41] After all these years I'm definitely
(PS1YT) [42] Still alive.
(PS1YU) [43] here.
(PS1YT) [44] Still alive. ...
(PS1YU) [45] That's given me all sorts of things [laughing] has it [] ? [laugh] ...
(PS1YT) [46] I don't know why.
[47] I don't why it's changed.
[48] ... I don't know why it's changed at all.
(PS1YU) [49] Look there's one that's not in there.
[50] ... The last one I got is not in there. ...
(PS1YT) [51] Well I don't know why it's been changed because
(PS1YU) [52] Well I, that's really the only reason I came up was because I wondered if they wanted to take me off it, you know if you wanted to change it, because i it isn't working.
[53] Cos see if I miss one my toes are absolutely giving me gyp. [laugh]
(PS1YT) [54] [...] ?
(PS1YU) [55] Yes I have.
(PS1YT) [56] Mm. ...
(PS1YU) [57] Now see the [...] ?
(PS1YT) [58] Mhm.
(PS1YU) [59] W does it matter if I don't take three a day?
[60] ... No.
[61] That's alright.
(PS1YT) [...]
(PS1YU) [62] Cos that's why I didn't get any when I got my last prescription because I'd been trying to just sort of even take one
(PS1YT) [63] As long as you're
(PS1YU) [64] at bedtime.
(PS1YT) [65] [...] as long as you're comfortable with [...]
(PS1YU) [66] That's alright then.
[67] That's fine.
(PS1YT) [68] [...] okay by me.
(PS1YU) [69] Oh and can I have [...]
(PS1YT) [...]
(PS1YU) [70] as well? [...] [...]
(PS1YT) [...] [...]
(PS1YU) [71] I've only got a week's [laughing] supply of that left so [] [laugh] ...
(PS1YT) [72] [whispering] Well [] nobody thanks you for doing without that.
(PS1YU) [73] Er no.
[74] My hands and my feet [laughing] don't certainly [] . [laugh]
(PS1YT) [75] Oh dear.
[76] Nobody else suffers?
(PS1YU) [77] Erm [...]
(PS1YT) [78] Only yourself?
(PS1YU) [79] only me.
[80] Yes.
[81] Exactly.
(PS1YT) [82] Nobody else?
(PS1YU) [83] And grossly so. [laugh]
(PS1YT) [84] Here we are then. [...]
(PS1YU) [85] Right.
[86] Thank you.
(PS1YT) [...]
(PS1YU) [87] Right.
[88] Thanking you
(PS1YT) [...]
(PS1YU) [89] and have a nice Easter.
(PS1YT) [90] Okay.
[91] I will.
(PS1YU) [92] And you're on call?
(PS1YT) [93] [...] [...] .
[94] Oh I will.
(PS1YU) [95] Oh you're obviously on call.
(PS1YT) [...] [laugh]
(PS1YU) [96] Right.
[97] I hope I don't have to [laughing] call you out then [] . [laugh]
(PS1YT) [98] [...] fingers crossed.
[99] I've got my fingers crossed.
(PS1YU) [100] For a quiet time.
(PS1YT) [101] Yeah.
[102] Right.
[103] Okay now.
(PS1YU) [104] Thanks very much. [...]
(PS1YT) [105] Bye.