Murtagh's Practice Tips is the trusted resource that provides tips for GPs and other medicalpractitioners drawn from John Murtagh's extensive experience in practice. It is the essential guidefor tried-and-tested approaches to treatment and improvisation methods, using convenient toolsand 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 inMedical Observer for 13 years.Content throughout this new edition has been updated, providing essential information, more than450 detailed illustrations, and step-by-step instructions on how to deal with conditions encounteredby 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 commonterminology to suit practitioners at all levels of experience.