BNC Text KNJ

Medical consultation. Sample containing about 409 words speech recorded in public context


4 speakers recorded by respondent number C810

PS6M8 X m (No name, age unknown, general practitioner) unspecified
PS6M9 X u (No name, age unknown) unspecified
KNJPSUNK (respondent W0000) X u (Unknown speaker, age unknown) other
KNJPSUGP (respondent W000M) X u (Group of unknown speakers, age unknown) other

1 recordings

  1. Tape 096804 recorded on unknown date. LocationStrathclyde: Lanark ( Consultation Room ) Activity: Consultation Interview

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Unknown speaker (KNJPSUNK) [1] [...] see see you in a second.
[2] Now what can we do for Jane? [...] you're you're wheezing?
[3] You're a bad woman .
(PS6M9) [4] [...] Dr Aye really quite bad.
(PS6M8) [5] [...] a lovely day like that, you're wheezing. [...]
(PS6M9) [...]
(PS6M8) [...]
(PS6M9) [6] No I've been quite bad for Thursday or Friday
(PS6M8) [7] Have you?
(PS6M9) [8] last week.
[9] Aye.
(PS6M8) [10] Ah you're full of infection as well.
(PS6M9) [11] I'm taking a steroid inhaler.
[12] Got a lot of pains
(PS6M8) [13] Aha.
(PS6M9) [14] in my chest and that.
(PS6M8) [15] Your tubes are full.
(PS6M9) [16] Aye.
[17] Very tired.
[18] I feel very tired.
[19] [...] forgotten [...] sometimes.
(PS6M8) [20] Aye no wonder.
[21] Would you like to come.
[22] [...] . Right okay, don't.
[23] Right.
(PS6M9) [24] [cough] .
(PS6M8) [25] [whispering] [...] [] ... [whispering] Get your tubes loosened up.
[26] I'll need to give you an antibiotic as well Jane to []
(PS6M9) [27] Mm.
(PS6M8) [28] [whispering] [...] that stuff because there's a lot of stuff lying Actually caught in the tubes. []
(PS6M9) [29] Aye I've [...] take pains a lot.
(PS6M8) [30] [...] Aye.
(PS6M9) [31] Everywhere.
(PS6M8) [32] Everywhere?
(PS6M9) [33] Aye.
(PS6M8) [34] Right.
[35] ... And ... [whispering] Thirteenth [...] [] Well what about work?
[36] You'll no manage work [...]
(PS6M9) [37] No I've not been at my work this
(PS6M8) [38] You've not been at your work.
(PS6M9) [39] Aye.
[40] But they go on holiday on Thursday.
[41] But I phoned the work yesterday,
(PS6M8) [42] Mhm.
(PS6M9) [43] and I says er if I need a line, how will it work?
[44] And she says, Just ask your doctor for a line
(PS6M8) [45] Mhm.
(PS6M9) [46] to cover your work
(PS6M8) [...]
(PS6M9) [47] from yesterday to Friday.
[48] Then I go on holiday for three
(PS6M8) [49] Right.
(PS6M9) [50] weeks.
(PS6M8) [51] [...] .
[52] ... Now did you put in a self certificate as well did you?
(PS6M9) [53] No well that's what I
(PS6M8) [54] That's
(PS6M9) [55] was phoning the work for. [...]
(PS6M8) [56] Aye [...]
(PS6M9) [57] self certificate this week?
[58] She says, No, and it's holiday time, a self certificate's no good.
(PS6M8) [59] Aye [...]
(PS6M9) [60] You'll need an insurance line.
(PS6M8) [61] No get a self certificate and put it in
(PS6M9) [...]
(PS6M8) [62] to Road.
[63] To keep yourself covered with Road.
(PS6M9) [64] Alright.
(PS6M8) [65] Cos that's what the work should have done.
(PS6M9) [66] Ah.
(PS6M8) [67] They should have got a self certificate and then sent it on to Road for you.
(PS6M9) [68] Will I get that [...] then?
(PS6M8) [69] But you get it from
(PS6M9) [70] What down the Road ?
(PS6M8) [71] Aye down the Road and get it away Jane, just to keep yourself covered [...] .
(PS6M9) [72] Right.
(PS6M8) [73] Cos er they should have done that.
[74] They're a crowd of bandits.
[75] Who's that ?
(PS6M9) [76] yeah. ... [...] .
(PS6M8) [77] Och [...] to breathe down there know what I mean, but oh.
(PS6M9) [78] Mm. ...
(PS6M8) [79] Boy it's getting getting past it.
(PS6M9) [80] Aye it's the daughter now.
[81] It's no boys, it's Karen she's the boss .
(PS6M8) [...]
(PS6M9) [82] Lady Muck. [...]
(PS6M8) [83] Say no more [...] [laugh] Say no more.
(PS6M9) [84] Okay, thanks now Doctor.
(PS6M8) [85] Well you're that'll keep [...] Jane.
[86] Okay?
(PS6M9) [87] [...] thanks.
(PS6M8) [88] Right.
[89] Cheerio now.
(PS6M9) [...] [recording ends]