| PS212 | Ag5 | m | (No name, age 60, general practitioner) unspecified |
| PS213 | X | f | (Alison, age unknown) unspecified |
| (PS212) |
[1] Thank you. [2] ... Hello. [...] |
| Alison (PS213) | [...] |
| (PS212) |
[3] What can we do for you today? |
| Alison (PS213) |
[4] Er well, I've had a sore throat. [5] It's about three weeks now. [6] The er not a sore throat th you know, it's there for a couple of days and then it kind of eases off, I think it's getting better and then |
| (PS212) | [...] |
| Alison (PS213) |
[7] the next day it's as bad as ever. |
| (PS212) |
[8] As bad as ever. [...] |
| Alison (PS213) |
[9] This morning I can kind of feel it, but last night it was as if I was when I swallowed there was a big lump. |
| (PS212) |
[10] Like a lump at the back? |
| Alison (PS213) |
[11] Erm |
| (PS212) |
[12] Mm. [13] [...] . Stick your tongue out. [14] Oh, aye, [...] a way down, see just in through there? |
| Alison (PS213) |
[15] Aha. |
| (PS212) |
[16] Down the sides there, not up beside your tonsils. [17] It's a way down the back. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[18] Right. |
| (PS212) |
[19] And see that wee thing that hangs down the back? [20] That's what [...] [...] |
| Alison (PS213) |
[21] Aha. |
| (PS212) |
[22] And it's rubbing up against your tongue. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[23] Aye. |
| (PS212) |
[24] That's what you're feeling [...] . |
| Alison (PS213) |
[25] But I didn't feel it as bad this morning |
| (PS212) |
[26] No. [27] That's right. [28] Oh no. [29] Aye. [...] . |
| Alison (PS213) |
[30] [...] up here and I, I've been keeping putting it off and putting it off. |
| (PS212) |
[31] It, it comes back into [...] it, some, some nights it's quite good and then other nights it feels all |
| Alison (PS213) |
[32] Aye. [33] It's |
| (PS212) |
[34] dry and it feels like [...] |
| Alison (PS213) |
[35] Ah, aye, I'm not |
| (PS212) |
[36] in the morning. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[37] I've a right cough as well and a tickle and [...] |
| (PS212) |
[38] That's [...] . |
| Alison (PS213) |
[39] [...] what I'm bringing up. [40] It's |
| (PS212) |
[41] Aye. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[42] filthy. |
| (PS212) |
[43] You have trouble with your sinuses at all? |
| Alison (PS213) |
[44] [...] Erm aye, I can do. |
| (PS212) |
[45] [...] Choke. [46] Kind of choke down |
| Alison (PS213) |
[47] Kind of choke down. |
| (PS212) |
[48] again. [49] It might well be coming |
| Alison (PS213) |
[50] I've [...] |
| (PS212) |
[51] from there. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[52] See I've had a couple of colds the past few months and then you think, well that's me, I'm getting better. [53] And then the next morning I'm up I feel as I was going to take it again. |
| (PS212) |
[54] It feels all choked up again. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[55] Aye. |
| (PS212) |
[56] Right. [57] Er it sounds as though it might well be stuck in your sinuses here and this stuff's running down the back |
| Alison (PS213) |
[58] Mhm. |
| (PS212) |
[59] and ca la landing in the back of your throat here. [60] Er you're what,? |
| Alison (PS213) |
[61] Aye. [62] Three. ... |
| (PS212) |
[63] Now, I've given you some antibiotics. [64] They're to take during the day. [65] And I've given you special stuff for nighttime to keep the back of your throat clear at night. [66] Because that's half the battle if you can keep |
| Alison (PS213) |
[67] [...] nights, I didn't have a decent night's sleep just for the tickle you know, the [...] . |
| (PS212) |
[68] That's right, the continual it's this continual stuff running down the back that goes for it. [69] ... Mhm. [70] ... Oops! [71] [whispering] [...] [] ... There we are. [72] Right, |
| Alison (PS213) |
[73] Thanks Doctor. |
| (PS212) |
[74] Mrs . |
| Alison (PS213) |
[75] I wonder if I could show you a mole? |
| (PS212) | [laugh] |
| Alison (PS213) |
[76] I've got, I feel as if it's getting [...] and I don't know if it's erm to be [...] |
| (PS212) | [...] |
| Alison (PS213) |
[77] I've had it for years and never bothered. |
| (PS212) |
[78] Aye, I know but [...] they change. [79] Let's look. [80] ... Yeah. [81] It's starting to get black at one side alright [...] |
| Alison (PS213) |
[82] You see I cannot not see it [...] |
| (PS212) |
[83] No. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[84] but I just felt it |
| (PS212) |
[85] Right. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[86] something's up. [87] I'm not scratching it because I can't scratch it but |
| (PS212) |
[88] No. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[89] I'm worried about it. |
| (PS212) |
[90] Yeah. [91] Well I think you better get this seen to. [92] It's, there's a tiny wee corner at the top there where the colour's changing. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[93] Is it? |
| (PS212) |
[94] And there's another wee bit there. [95] Aye. [96] Get it off. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[97] Right. |
| (PS212) |
[98] Get it off. [whispering] [...] [] ... |
| Alison (PS213) |
[99] [cough] ... I've been going to come up about it and g |
| (PS212) |
[100] Aye. [101] It's, och aye, it's one of these things. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[102] Do you think it [...] |
| (PS212) | [...] |
| Alison (PS213) |
[103] I've had it for all this time, I hope. |
| (PS212) |
[104] Yeah. [105] Well it wouldn't make |
| Alison (PS213) | [...] |
| (PS212) |
[106] any difference. [107] Now, all I need for you to go and see the skin specialist and [whistling] get it in the bucket and then there's |
| Alison (PS213) |
[108] Right. |
| (PS212) |
[109] no worry about it. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[110] Okay then. |
| (PS212) |
[111] Right. [112] Okay Alison. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[113] Thanks a lot. |
| (PS212) |
[114] Right. [115] Cheerio now. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[116] Bye. [117] Are you alright yourself? |
| (PS212) |
[118] Yeah. [119] Yeah. [120] It's no [laughing] no problem [] . |
| Alison (PS213) |
[121] [laughing] [...] it's just typical isn't it [] ? |
| (PS212) |
[122] That's it. |
| Alison (PS213) | [laugh] |
| (PS212) |
[123] Right. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[124] Thanks. |
| (PS212) |
[125] Cheerio now. |
| Alison (PS213) |
[126] Cheerio. [end of consultation] ... |
| (PS212) |
[127] [recording a memo] Letter to [...] District Hospital, [...] thirty two. [128] Dear Doctor, this woman has a mole on her right upper arm. [129] She tells me that this has recently become quite itchy, and when [...] there appear to be one or two areas that have er become discoloured [...] darker than, than the main part of the mole. [130] I [...] appointment to [...] removal and would be grateful for your advice [...] . [131] Yours sincerely. [132] And could you mark that one very urgent, please. |