BNC Text H5W

Medical consultation. Sample containing about 392 words speech recorded in public context


2 speakers recorded by respondent number C327

PS2DH Ag5 m (No name, age 60, general practitioner) unspecified
PS2DJ X f (No name, age unknown) unspecified

1 recordings

  1. Tape 099411 recorded on 1993-04. LocationStrathclyde: Lanark ( doctor's surgery ) Activity: medical consultation

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(PS2DJ) [1] In you come.
[2] Oh.
[3] That's better.
[4] [baby cries] Here.
[5] Here.
[6] Come here.
(PS2DH) [7] Who's, who's making all the noise?
[8] Is it you?
[9] You shouting?
(PS2DJ) [10] There you are. [...]
(PS2DH) [11] Are you shouting?
[12] ... Well [...] , what can I do for you today?
(PS2DJ) [13] Oh.
[14] Well is the results of th that X-ray in?
[15] I was away getting my hand X-rayed. ...
(PS2DH) [16] Clear as a bell.
(PS2DJ) [17] Is it?
(PS2DH) [18] Mhm.
[19] Yeah.
[20] It's a neuralgia kind of thing.
(PS2DJ) [21] Is it?
(PS2DH) [22] Yeah.
[23] I'm afraid
(PS2DJ) [24] Er
(PS2DH) [25] so.
(PS2DJ) [26] well, I need another prescription for [...] .
(PS2DH) [27] [...] yes.
(PS2DJ) [28] Doctor see about this hair of mine, it's just not coming back in.
(PS2DH) [29] It's not coming back in?
(PS2DJ) [30] No.
[31] And I feel it's getting really really thin.
[32] I mean
(PS2DH) [33] Is that right?
(PS2DJ) [34] I have took alopecia before I mean I thought maybe
(PS2DH) [35] Mhm.
(PS2DJ) [36] it was because it was the wee one, but that's her
(PS2DH) [37] Aha.
(PS2DJ) [38] fourteen months, so I mean it should be
(PS2DH) [39] Oh aye.
(PS2DJ) [40] showing as wee bit er of improvement.
(PS2DH) [41] [...] be alright.
[42] Yeah.
(PS2DJ) [43] But I mean i it's not.
[44] ... And that bit there's completely bald.
[45] To there.
(PS2DH) [46] Right.
(PS2DJ) [47] And this bit here at the top is ... kind of starting to go. ...
(PS2DH) [48] Right.
[49] Get you over to the specialist and see what's
(PS2DJ) [50] And I'm beginning to get a wee bit worried about it, [laughing] you know [] ? ...
(PS2DH) [51] Er now.
(PS2DJ) [52] But sh er well [...] distalgesics
(PS2DH) [53] Are you ne are you ne are you need [cough] are you al you alright?
(PS2DJ) [54] Aye.
(PS2DH) [55] [...] my voice.
[56] [cough] Excuse me.
[57] You're not needing the pink ones? ...
(PS2DJ) [58] What?
(PS2DH) [59] The wee pink
(PS2DJ) [60] The wee pink ones No I've still got [...] cos I've only taken
(PS2DH) [61] diamond shaped ones.
[62] Still got some of them?
(PS2DJ) [63] Is it two a day?
(PS2DH) [64] Two a day.
[65] That's right.
(PS2DJ) [66] [...] Aye.
[67] Still got some of them.
(PS2DH) [68] Still got some of them.
[69] Right, and the dist the distalgesic?
(PS2DJ) [cough] [cough] ... [baby cries]
(PS2DH) [70] Getting restless?
[71] ... Are you? ...
(PS2DJ) [72] So where is that I'll go Doctor for my hair?
(PS2DH) [73] Er, I can make it [cough] I can make it Monklands, or Strathclyde?
(PS2DJ) [74] [...] Strathclyde's nearer [...]
(PS2DH) [75] Is that handier for you?
(PS2DJ) [76] Aye.
(PS2DH) [77] Oh.
[78] Er it's immaterial, I mean it's just a matter of putting a different address on the letter.
[79] Aye.
(PS2DJ) [80] I mean it's just I wouldn't like it to go any
(PS2DH) [81] No, oh no.
[82] No no.
(PS2DJ) [83] to go any further.
(PS2DH) [84] [...] ta-ta.
(PS2DJ) [...]
(PS2DH) [85] Ta-ta. [baby noise]
(PS2DJ) [86] Say bye bye.
(PS2DH) [87] No,
(PS2DJ) [...]
(PS2DH) [88] no, she's desperate to get away.
(PS2DJ) [laugh]
(PS2DH) [89] You're desperate.
[90] Right.
(PS2DJ) [91] Right, thanks Doctor .
(PS2DH) [92] Right.
[93] Cheerio now.
(PS2DJ) [94] Cheerio.
[95] ... This way.
[96] This way, look.