Box 2.

Example of patient preparation^a

Time, minutes:seconds	Line	Speaker	Excerpt
00:03	1	GP018:	I’m er Dr GP018 (0.5) take a seat.
	2	Pt109:	Thank you sir (1.9)
	3	GP018:	Right, yeah so hh=
	4 (6 lines omitted)	Pt109:	=I filled in paperwork, as instructed by the lady.
00:20	11	GP018:	Do you feel you had a (0.3) chance to, sort of, ask a lot questions and get a good understanding of what this is [all about, yeah?]
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00:25	13	Pt109:	[Yes I did yes yes I did] (0.3)
00:28	14	GP018:	And how did you find, um (0.5), er setting goals or having a think about what sort of things you were? (0.7)
	15
	16	Pt109:	Well, there were several things I thought of that I’d like to do right
	17	GP018:	Mmm=
00:40	18	Pt109:	Um, (1.3) hhh I take quite a high dose of (0.5) different types of tablets=
	19	GP018:	=Yeah, yeah.
	20	Pt109:	And I’d like to er see if there’s any possible way to cut some back=
	21	GP018:	=Okay, yeah.
	22 (10 lines omitted)	Pt109:	Right, (2.0) and I walk to a, roughly about a mile a day, right?
01:19	33	GP018:	Okay (0.2) yes, so, um, yeah, we’ll definitely go through those — sounds like you’ve had a good — good think about it, actually, and come up with some good stuff.
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^a[Number] indicates a pause measured in seconds inside brackets. [ ] marks start and end of overlapping talk. Underlining locates emphasis. Equal sign indicates no gap between two lines of talk. Pt = patient.