BNC Text H51

Medical consultations. Sample containing about 514 words speech recorded in public context


2 speakers recorded by respondent number C300

PS20J Ag5 m (No name, age 60, general practitioner) unspecified
PS20K X f (Anne, age unknown) unspecified

1 recordings

  1. Tape 091005 recorded on 1993-04. LocationStrathclyde: Glasgow ( doctor's surgery ) Activity: medical consultation

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Anne (PS20K) [1] Hello.
(PS20J) [2] Hello.
[3] Well, what can I do for this [...] day?
Anne (PS20K) [4] See if you could give me some [...] [...] Doctor.
(PS20J) [5] [...] [...] to it.
Anne (PS20K) [6] No it's the tablets and that I'm [...] [...] .
(PS20J) [7] Were you still waiting for that now?
[8] Right?
Anne (PS20K) [9] Mm.
(PS20J) [10] That's
Anne (PS20K) [...]
(PS20J) [11] healed
Anne (PS20K) [12] really
(PS20J) [13] bad.
Anne (PS20K) [14] and weeping.
[15] I can't walk.
(PS20J) [16] [...] right.
[17] Well that's needing healed up again.
Anne (PS20K) [18] Aye.
(PS20J) [19] [...] right.
Anne (PS20K) [20] But I admit [...] matter. ...
(PS20J) [21] You still on [...] [...] ?
Anne (PS20K) [22] [...] .
[23] Mhm.
(PS20J) [24] [whispering] Okay [] .
[25] ... Alright.
[26] ... Now, I've given you some cream to put on [...] as well Anne.
Anne (PS20K) [27] Right.
(PS20J) [28] Now, put that on three times a day and you put the tablets, you take the tablets four times a day.
Anne (PS20K) [29] What the tablets for?
(PS20J) [30] It's an antibiotic stuff to clean it from the inside.
Anne (PS20K) [31] Ah right.
(PS20J) [32] Because there's inflammation round about the inside of the pin
Anne (PS20K) [33] It's that that's [...] weep.
(PS20J) [34] and it's starting to come out, aye.
[35] It's starting to come out
Anne (PS20K) [36] Mm.
(PS20J) [37] onto the skin.
[38] And trouble you.
Anne (PS20K) [39] [...] [...] do you?
(PS20J) [40] Yes.
[41] Oh aye.
Anne (PS20K) [42] I am.
(PS20J) [43] Oh aye.
Anne (PS20K) [44] Mm.
(PS20J) [45] Oh aye.
[46] More or less.
Anne (PS20K) [47] See [...] Doctor , see my toes?
[48] I've seen them going kind of black, you know?
(PS20J) [49] Yes.
[50] That's
Anne (PS20K) [...]
(PS20J) [51] okay.
Anne (PS20K) [52] Is that alright?
(PS20J) [53] Don't don't worry about that.
Anne (PS20K) [54] I [...] [...] [laughing] [...] maybe [...] []
(PS20J) [55] No.
[56] No.
[57] No.
Anne (PS20K) [...]
(PS20J) [58] No.
[59] No.
[60] You've no [laughing] you're not going
Anne (PS20K) [...]
(PS20J) [61] to come to any harm with that [] .
Anne (PS20K) [62] See these [...] tablets you gave me?
[63] They're no use.
[64] I prefer to keep [...]
(PS20J) [65] Are they not?
Anne (PS20K) [66] with the [...] .
(PS20J) [67] Mhm.
Anne (PS20K) [68] [...] that I've got.
(PS20J) [69] Right.
Anne (PS20K) [70] Because you gave me ten milligrams and t the five's not very strong.
[71] But I'm not very well with them and I just think they're terrible.
[72] ... [...] ... Save on the [...] .
(PS20J) [73] Right.
[74] But er if you haven't heard, how long have the pins been in now, Anne?
Anne (PS20K) [75] [...] two year.
[76] A year and a half.
(PS20J) [77] If you haven't heard within the next two or three months, come in and see
Anne (PS20K) [78] Mhm.
(PS20J) [79] [...] again and we'll get onto the
Anne (PS20K) [80] Mm.
(PS20J) [81] hospital because that's
Anne (PS20K) [82] I know, I mean I've [...] skin, [...]
(PS20J) [83] Aye.
Anne (PS20K) [84] but er twice [...] so I didn't get [...] .
(PS20J) [85] Right.
Anne (PS20K) [86] And then I, I was at Doctor 's but he er he hasn't sent me a letter [...] .
(PS20J) [87] Right. [...]
Anne (PS20K) [88] Because he can't [...]
(PS20J) [whispering] [...] []
Anne (PS20K) [89] doing it.
(PS20J) [90] [...] .
[91] I it seems
Anne (PS20K) [...]
(PS20J) [92] it seems quite a long time
Anne (PS20K) [93] And er at times, at spells, I've got to put on the pink bandage, at times, you know, to get the swelling back down.
(PS20J) [94] Right.
[95] Aye.
[96] Sounds as though the pins are needing to come out.
Anne (PS20K) [97] Oh aye.
[98] [...] definitely need to [...] .
[99] Even the nurse said she could see it.
(PS20J) [100] Oh, well.
[101] Hmm hmm.
Anne (PS20K) [102] Aye.
(PS20J) [103] Right.
Anne (PS20K) [104] Er that's the [...] strength or possibly three or [...] .
(PS20J) [105] Right well.
[106] We'll get
Anne (PS20K) [107] Right.
(PS20J) [108] that, we'll get that organized for you.
Anne (PS20K) [109] [...] Thanks
(PS20J) [110] Okay?
Anne (PS20K) [111] very much.
(PS20J) [112] Right?
Anne (PS20K) [113] Cheerio.
(PS20J) [114] Cheerio now.
[115] [end of consultation] ... [recording a letter or memo] A letter to Mr [...] at the [...] surgeon at District Hospital.
[116] About Anne of [...] .
[117] Dear Mr [...] .
[118] You may have already [...] saying that Mrs [...] attended [...] recently.
[119] She has a black [...] and she asking about [...] .
[120] [...] turned septic.
[121] She's quite worried [...] crusting and discharge but she's having [...] .
[122] In fact [...] been [...] treatment with antibiotics and ... cream [...] .
[123] However, she [...] .
[124] [...] I feel that she would [...]