MURTAGH'S PRACTICE TIPS 8E

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. For this eighth edition,

Professor Murtagh is joined by Dr Justin Coleman, who wrote the ‘GP Tips’ handy hints column in

Medical Observer for 13 years.



Content throughout this new edition has been updated, providing essential information, more than

450 detailed illustrations, 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:

• accessible technology tips

• excisions

• the phone as a medical tool

• injections and topical anaesthesia

• cryotherapy

• therapeutic venesection.



Written with the busy practitioner in mind, this latest edition describes techniques using common

terminology to suit practitioners at all levels of experience.