Ebook Murtagh S Practice Tips

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.

Practice Tips is a popular essential reference of practical, useful information and instruction on methods of dealing with ailments presented to GPs and nursing practitioners in everyday practice. Increase your job satisfaction by employing the latest basic diagnostic and therapeutic skills for the general practitioner. Practice Tips 5th edition contains new and revised tips plus fresh approaches to existing procedures and us a must have for all practitioners - especially young graduates entering into practice.

From a leading figure in Australian medicine comes this edition of thi s immmensely user-friendly reference that employs a symptom-based appr oach to clinical practice. For the full range of conditions met in pri mary practice, you'll review approach to the patient, the physical exa m, probable causes, differential diagnosis, and treatment strategies. Throughout, Dr. Murtagh adds his own clinical pearls that are both ins ightful and a delight to read. Superb illustrations demonstrate examin ation technqiue and abundant use of tables and charts makes diagnosis quick and easy. Most importantly, the clinical insights of internation ally recognized authority Dr. John Murtagh make this a unique and usef ul resource for the physician, nurse practitioner or physician assista nt.

John Murtagh’s General Practice is widely recognised as the gold standard reference and most influential publication for general practice and primary health care, both for doctors already established in practice and those starting out in their careers. Now in its 7th edition, this Companion Handbook refines the content from the main book. Presented in a searchable A–Z order, this accompanying book is an accessible, trusted and portable source of information for medical students and experienced professionals.

First published in 1992 and now in its seventh edition, Murtagh's Patient Education is the proven international standard for patient education material. This tried-and-tested resource provides GPs, general practice nurses, registrars and pharmacists with accurate, accessible information to distribute to patients. Written in simple, non-technical language, information on each condition is presented in a concise, friendly, single-page format so it can be easily photocopied or printed and distributed to patients to help them understand and manage their medical condition. Among the 22 new topics in this latest edition are: • The Australian National Immunisation Program Schedule • Ovarian cancer • Dengue fever • Advanced care planning. Most of the existing sheets have been revised, including major updates to women's health topics such as Cystitis, Dysmenorrhoea and Endometriosis, and comprehensive coverage of Cervical Cancer screening replaces Pap Test from the previous edition. A reorganisation of content has also created a Mental Health section.