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, such as how to remove swallowed foreign bodies, how to treat ingrown toenails and how to reposition a dislocated shoulder. Drawn from John Murtagh?s many years of experience as a rural GP, the book is unique in its approach to community medicine and is popular among family physicians?rural medical practitioners in particular who are often the only medical service in the vicinity and sometimes need to improvise in the absence of the sophisticated facilities available in the urban setting. Like all his books, John Murtagh adopts a common-sense approach to general practice and expresses himself in simple language, making his work accessible to medical students and the nursing community as well as medical practitioners. The new edition has been updated with an additional 20% of new material.