BNC Text H50

Medical consultations. Sample containing about 582 words speech recorded in public context


2 speakers recorded by respondent number C299

PS20G Ag5 m (No name, age 60, general practitioner) unspecified
PS20H X f (No name, age unknown) unspecified

1 recordings

  1. Tape 091004 recorded on 1993-04. LocationStrathclyde: Glasgow ( doctor's surgery ) Activity: medical consultation

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(PS20G) [1] Come in.
(PS20H) [...]
(PS20G) [2] Oh, come in.
(PS20H) [3] Oh, aye.
(PS20G) [4] What can we do for you today Mrs [...] ?
(PS20H) [5] Erm I feel Doctor [...] [...]
(PS20G) [6] Mm.
[7] What've you been doing?
(PS20H) [8] [...] worth it, [...] .
[9] Erm I still feel lousy.
(PS20G) [10] Mhm.
(PS20H) [11] But I have a week er [...] but I couldn't open my week's [...] .
(PS20G) [...]
(PS20H) [12] So could you possibly backdate it to Monday?
(PS20G) [13] Mhm. [phone rings]
(PS20H) [14] Because we also work [...]
(PS20G) [15] Aye.
(PS20H) [16] [...] [...] the holiday.
(PS20G) [17] [...] .
[18] [phonecall starts] [...] [telephone conversation ends] Mm.
[19] Now, you went off, when, when was it you [...] ?
(PS20H) [20] Oh, it was a week past this Sunday. [...]
(PS20G) [21] A week past Sunday [...] .
(PS20H) [22] But you know how you've got a week
(PS20G) [23] Aye.
(PS20H) [24] you can self-certificate [...] .
(PS20G) [25] So that covers you up till the Monday
(PS20H) [26] Monday.
(PS20G) [27] does it?
(PS20H) [28] Aye.
(PS20G) [29] Up till the Monday.
[30] Right.
(PS20H) [31] Up to the Monday.
[32] I phoned in to work and asked [...] ?
(PS20G) [33] Yes.
(PS20H) [34] Don't come back till you're feeling [...] .
(PS20G) [35] No.
[36] No.
(PS20H) [37] Oh, I've been out of my weekend off [...]
(PS20G) [38] Yeah.
(PS20H) [39] without this [...] long weekend due.
[40] [...] . I actually picked up the spots, soon as that Doctor came in, to see if they [...] , right up.
[41] Right up my ne ears, [...] my neck and my neighbour came in, she said, I think that's shingles, cos it was sore?
(PS20G) [42] Mhm.
(PS20H) [43] But it, oh, it was not shingles.
[44] But I was absolutely [...] Doctor [...]
(PS20G) [45] It [...] could well have been shingles.
(PS20H) [46] Yes.
[47] It's no proof I hadn't a clue [...] [...]
(PS20G) [48] Yeah.
(PS20H) [49] [...] the stuff you gave [...] .
[50] That beautiful medicine Doctor?
(PS20G) [51] [laughing] Mm.
[52] Mhm [] .
(PS20H) [53] It's lousy I hate to tell you.
(PS20G) [54] [laugh] [laughing] [...] you think I don't
(PS20H) [...]
(PS20G) [55] know it [] ?
(PS20H) [56] Two bottles of that.
(PS20G) [57] Do you think I don't know it?
(PS20H) [58] You [...] with her, you [...] with [...] cannot pronounce it.
(PS20G) [59] Yeah.
(PS20H) [60] And she [...] I got [...] .
(PS20G) [61] Yeah.
[62] Is the rash still there?
(PS20H) [63] [...] Aye.
[64] It's [...] but I mean I actually it was right down in there, right up, right round and it was painful.
(PS20G) [65] Yeah, that's shingles.
(PS20H) [66] It was bloody painful.
[67] If you excuse the French.
(PS20G) [68] That's it.
[69] That's the shingles.
(PS20H) [70] And he wasn't in today [...] I mean came into work and I passed out in the [...] . [...] .
(PS20G) [71] Mhm.
(PS20H) [72] And when they saw the rash ... then they were [...] , but, but tt oh, I see, she says.
[73] What is it?
[74] I don't know, she says.
(PS20G) [75] Yeah.
(PS20H) [76] It could be and then again couldn't be shingles.
[77] But I mean you know how [...] ?
(PS20G) [78] Aye.
(PS20H) [79] I said, God, I was [...] ,
(PS20G) [80] That's [...] .
(PS20H) [81] I could [...] .
(PS20G) [82] [...] you can't, you can't pass that on.
(PS20H) [83] Can you not?
[84] I said oh, it's a pity I haven't [...] then.
(PS20G) [85] Oh no.
[86] No.
[87] No.
[88] It's, you're not gonna pass it on to anybody, you're quite safe [...] .
(PS20H) [89] I was [...] about that, [...] [...] .
(PS20G) [90] Mm.
[91] Yeah.
(PS20H) [92] And they all took, they all [...]
(PS20G) [93] But that [...] It takes something like the flu and that brings it out.
(PS20H) [94] Do you know what?
[95] I've, I still feel lousy.
[96] And I
(PS20G) [97] Oh aye.
(PS20H) [98] finished that medicine I finished it the [...] my chest, I still feel sick.
[99] Quite sick [...] .
(PS20G) [100] G go and go home and look after yourself.
(PS20H) [...]
(PS20G) [101] Don't run away yet.
[102] Don't run away yet.
(PS20H) [103] I'll tell you something, if I [...] it would be the first cruise liner I could find and I'd be away and I [...]
(PS20G) [...]
(PS20H) [...]
(PS20G) [...] [laugh]
(PS20H) [104] Oh m maybe when you're not.
[105] I [...] could do this.
(PS20G) [laugh]
(PS20H) [106] Say we won a lot of money first thing I do would be to, [...] with his sisters.
[107] It's the first thing you got with it, you get a phone call, do me alright.
(PS20G) [108] Mm.
(PS20H) [109] Don't bother sending a [...] .
(PS20G) [110] [...] I want you to [...] [...]
(PS20H) [...]
(PS20G) [111] look after yourself.
(PS20H) [112] Okay thanks doctor.
(PS20G) [113] Right?
[114] Se right.
[115] Cheerio now.
(PS20H) [...]