BNC Text H53

Medical consultations. Sample containing about 373 words speech recorded in public context


2 speakers recorded by respondent number C302

PS20N Ag5 m (No name, age 60, general practitioner) unspecified
PS20P X m (No name, age unknown) unspecified

1 recordings

  1. Tape 091007 recorded on 1993-04. LocationStrathclyde: Glasgow ( doctor's surgery ) Activity: medical consultation

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(PS20N) [1] Ah, here he is.
(PS20P) [2] [...] [laugh] [...] this morning? [...] ?
(PS20N) [3] The quicker these kids get back to school.
(PS20P) [4] Is it them that's causing it?
(PS20N) [5] Oh.
[6] It's always the same.
[7] Always the same.
[8] Every [...] [...]
(PS20P) [9] I'm just off for my [...] my line Doctor.
(PS20N) [10] [...] ?
(PS20P) [11] Aye.
[12] ... Apart from that [...] I feel great.
[13] I've stopped smoking now for four month.
(PS20N) [14] Four months?
[15] Very good.
[16] ... The very first spending stacks of money now, [...] ?
(PS20P) [17] [...] I've not got any now.
(PS20N) [laugh]
(PS20P) [18] Cos when you smoke you kept your money for your fags, but if you don't smoke you don't need to keep it.
(PS20N) [laugh]
(PS20P) [laugh]
(PS20N) [19] [laughing] I thought you'd have been buying an oil well or something like that [] . [laugh]
(PS20P) [20] I know, I didn't realize, [...] .
[21] My two brothers are off on holiday now for ten days [...] .
(PS20N) [22] Aye.
[23] There's a lot of folk given up, just in the past year.
[24] It's terrible.
(PS20P) [25] [...] I mean that that [...] addicted to it, I was like a heroin addict, you know?
(PS20N) [26] Oh aye.
[27] Oh aye, I [...] .
(PS20P) [28] [...] and all these years they spend [...] .
[29] You [...]
(PS20N) [30] I know.
(PS20P) [31] you telling me to stop smoking for [...]
(PS20N) [32] That's right.
[33] That's right.
(PS20P) [34] You see, they tell you to stop smoking
(PS20N) [35] The day it happened the day you got this
(PS20P) [36] Aye.
(PS20N) [37] heart attack, [snaps fingers] that was it.
(PS20P) [38] Well what really set my mind was when I lost my sister and my brother.
(PS20N) [39] Mm.
(PS20P) [40] Cathy and Hughie like, in two
(PS20N) [41] Yeah.
(PS20P) [42] months [...] smoking.
(PS20N) [43] That's right.
[44] That's right.
[45] I mean we we've got a friend and [...] she used to smoke sixty a day, and she never
(PS20P) [...]
(PS20N) [46] even talked about stopping, till her pal, into hospital, a dif a bypass operation.
[47] And that was it.
(PS20P) [48] Enough.
(PS20N) [49] Tt!
[50] That was it.
[51] No chance.
(PS20P) [52] I've been off for three or four time before [...] for long [...] a few years and
(PS20N) [53] Aye.
[54] Och aye.
[55] I know but [...]
(PS20P) [56] back to it.
(PS20N) [57] They go back to it, this is the thing.
(PS20P) [...]
(PS20N) [58] And it frightens me seeing the youngsters coming out [...] carrying [...] .
(PS20P) [59] That's right.
[60] And [...] , you know? [...] [...] .
(PS20N) [61] A couple of youngsters yesterday, seven year old, eight year olds at the very most, they have one of these gas lighters, up round the back of the [...] .
(PS20P) [...]
(PS20N) [62] It's so that nobody could see them. [laugh]
(PS20P) [63] I know, you can't, you can't [...] [...] .
(PS20N) [64] [...] can't tell them.
(PS20P) [65] [...] tell mine. [laugh]
(PS20N) [66] Right oh.
(PS20P) [...]