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  • Old Grumpy
    Full Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 3617

    Music is often played in doctors' surgeries to reduce the likelihood of patients who are waiting overhearing consultations or what is being discussed with the reception staff.

    OG

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    • LMcD
      Full Member
      • Sep 2017
      • 8476

      Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
      Music is often played in doctors' surgeries to reduce the likelihood of patients who are waiting overhearing consultations or what is being discussed with the reception staff.

      OG
      Apparently slow (downtempo) music leads people to walk more slowly, linger longer, and consequently spend more money. However, any 'background' music in shops has precisely the opposite effect on yours truly, especially if, as is the case in our local Spar shop, it's accompanied by messages urging me to check out the latest 'specials'.

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      • Pulcinella
        Host
        • Feb 2014
        • 10950

        Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
        Music is often played in doctors' surgeries to reduce the likelihood of patients who are waiting overhearing consultations or what is being discussed with the reception staff.

        OG
        Indeed, but that can be down to poor reception facilities and arrangements.
        I complained at a previous surgery, and was given a quiet room to wait in instead.
        The downside was, of course, that I missed my name being called (despite an assurance that someone would come and collect me!).

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        • Stanfordian
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 9314

          Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
          Indeed, but that can be down to poor reception facilities and arrangements.
          I complained at a previous surgery, and was given a quiet room to wait in instead.
          The downside was, of course, that I missed my name being called (despite an assurance that someone would come and collect me!).
          In The Christie cancer hospital in Manchester they play I think Radio Heart or some other similar commercial pop station in most of the waiting rooms. With all the pain and suffering going on in there it seems inappropriate to start making a fuss.

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          • Judith Robbyns

            "Indeed, but that can be down to poor reception facilities and arrangements."

            Even worse than music is spending ten minutes in the waiting room while one or two small children noisily open and shut the Wendy house door or race in and out of the 'telephone kiosk' picking up the receiver and banging it down again, shouting Hello, Hello. Then you get called to have your blood pressure taken and it's 160. Listening to the breakfast programme used to get me similarly agitated but I don't listen now.

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            • Pulcinella
              Host
              • Feb 2014
              • 10950

              Originally posted by Judith Robbyns View Post
              "Indeed, but that can be down to poor reception facilities and arrangements."

              Even worse than music is spending ten minutes in the waiting room while one or two small children noisily open and shut the Wendy house door or race in and out of the 'telephone kiosk' picking up the receiver and banging it down again, shouting Hello, Hello. Then you get called to have your blood pressure taken and it's 160. Listening to the breakfast programme used to get me similarly agitated but I don't listen now.

              Exactly so!

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              • Serial_Apologist
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 37691

                Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

                Exactly so!
                They don't have toys or other distractions to keep small people occupied in our local surgery, or even music - just two screens facing the rows of screwed down plastic chairs showing advice on how to cope with piles, HIV, smoking, obesity or impotence!

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                • hmvman
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 1106

                  Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                  ... just two screens facing the rows of screwed down plastic chairs showing advice on how to cope with piles, HIV, smoking, obesity or impotence!
                  ....and Suzy Klein on Essential Classics?

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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22127

                    Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                    I'm not a great fan of Tony Blackburn as such, but at least he treats his listeners as recycled adolescents rather than not particularly bright primary-school children. And he's been around long enough to know his audience - which cannot perhaps be said of Ms/Miss Alker. Whether she'll improve with time I can't say. I agree about the timing of 'Sounds Of the Sixties' - and the repeat is buried in the small hours. Still, there'a always 'Gambo', who doesn't get in the way of the music on those occasions when 'Pick Of the Pops' revisits the 60s. (He's also a capable host of 'Counterpoint', which I'm pleased to see has barely changed its format over the years).
                    Tried listening to ‘Sounds of the Sixties’ but the combination of Blackburn’s dreadful jokes, most of which I haeard back in the 60s, then John Rowles, Humperdinck-style awful delivery and Shirley Bassey slurring up to the notes was enough. Hardly the cutting edge music I remember!

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                    • LMcD
                      Full Member
                      • Sep 2017
                      • 8476

                      I haven't carried out an in-depth analysis, but, unless I'm mistaken, there have been quite a lot of what one might call 'lollipops' or 'potboilers' in the last few days, including one movement each from two of the most popular piano concertos (1 Norwegian and 1 Russian). It's probably a complete coincidence, but I've just seen my first TV advertisement for Scala.

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                      • Eine Alpensinfonie
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20570

                        I dear. It’s Saturday again. Did I need to switch the radio on to hear Elizabeth A repeated yelping on about someone’s garden shed and inviting them to get in touch again. This is beyond dreadful. Surely there’s a clause in the Geneva Convention that outlaws this kind of thing?

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                        • Pulcinella
                          Host
                          • Feb 2014
                          • 10950

                          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                          I dear. It’s Saturday again. Did I need to switch the radio on to hear Elizabeth A repeated yelping on about someone’s garden shed and inviting them to get in touch again. This is beyond dreadful. Surely there’s a clause in the Geneva Convention that outlaws this kind of thing?
                          You could always switch to Scala Radio and double their market share.
                          It can't be any worse, can it?
                          I prefer to have nothing on when I wake up these days!

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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22127

                            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                            I dear. It’s Saturday again. Did I need to switch the radio on to hear Elizabeth A repeated yelping on about someone’s garden shed and inviting them to get in touch again. This is beyond dreadful. Surely there’s a clause in the Geneva Convention that outlaws this kind of thing?
                            Was that connected to playing Debussy ‘Jardins sous la pluie’ as many will be this matin?

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                            • Stanfordian
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 9314

                              Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                              I dear. It’s Saturday again. Did I need to switch the radio on to hear Elizabeth A repeated yelping on about someone’s garden shed and inviting them to get in touch again. This is beyond dreadful. Surely there’s a clause in the Geneva Convention that outlaws this kind of thing?
                              It's dire! Who's idea is it to produce a programme in this manner?

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                              • doversoul1
                                Ex Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 7132

                                I heard a trailer for the new programme about video game music on this morning’s Record Review. I thought it was Elizabeth A reading the script until the voice said ‘I am a composer...’. It was that particular way of speaking as if their tongues were too long and getting in the way of speaking. The similarity was uncanny. Is this a new trend of speaking among young women?

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