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Murtagh´s Practice Tips is the trusted resource that provides tips for GPs and other medical practitioners drawn from John Murtagh´s extensive experience in practice. It is the essential guide for tried-and-tested approaches to treatment and improvisation methods, using convenient tools and readily available equipment to treat patients as effectively as possible.

Content throughout the resource has been updated for this seventh edition, providing essential information and step-by-step instructions on how to deal with conditions encountered by GPs around the world in everyday practice. New and updated content includes:

ú wounds and suturing
ú dressings for burns
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1. Skin repair and minor plastic surgery
2. Injection techniques
3. Treatment of lumps and bumps
4. Basic practical medical procedures
5. Varicose veins
6. Treatment of ano-rectal problems
7. Foot problems
8. Nail problems
9. Common trauma
10. Removal of foreign bodies
11. Musculoskeletal medicine
12. Orodental problems
13. Ear, nose and throat
14. The eyes
15. Tips on treating children
16. The Skin
17. Emergency procedures
18. Miscellaneous

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John Murtagh, AM, is Executive Director, Education at the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Adjunct Professor of General Practice at the Department of Community Medicine and General Practice , Monash University, Victoria, Australia. He is one of Australia´s leading GPs and community educators. A Professor in General Practice in the School of Primary Health Care at Monash University in Melbourne, Professorial Fellow in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle.

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