- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education; 3rd Revised edition edition (30 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0074708872
- ISBN-13: 978-0074708873
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 17.9 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,821,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Practice Tips" is a collection of basic diagnostic and therapeutic skills that can be used in the offices of general practitioners around the world. It offers ideas, alternatives and encouragement to practitioners faced with the everyday nitty-gritty problems of family practice. Providing a clear and concise guide to the management of common conditions encountered in general practice, this title has now been fully revised and updated. Simple line drawings enable quick assessment of management techniques and may make this a useful reference for practitioners and trainees alike.
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Practice Tips is an essential reference for medical and health practitioners to gain a range of practical, useful information and instruction on methods of dealing with everyday ailments and medical conditions. In this valuable guide to basic medical practice, John Murtagh draws on his simple terms hands-on techniques that do not require sophisticated equipment, but use improvisation and easy-to-hand instruments in tried and tested approaches. John Murtagh has written this book in his inimitable style with the busy medical practitioner in mind, presenting key information that is easy to access, constructive and to the point.
In this third edition, the author has updated the methods in the second edition and added over twenty new tips to make it an even more comprehensive reference. The text is amply supplemented with over 400 illustrations and has an easy to-follow format.
Reviews of the first edition:
"This book is superb. I only wish such a book had been available while I was an undergraduate student." - Professor Peter Baume, Head, School of Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney
"It is a text with a difference: most of this invaluable material is not available in conventional textbooks...A key feature of the tips is that they are simple and safe to perform, requiring minimal equipment and technical know-how." - Australian Family Physician
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