Table of Contents

1. Emergency procedures
2. Basic practical medical procedures
3. Injection techniques
4. Skin repair and minor plastic surgery
5. Treatment of lumps and bumps
6. Treatment of ano-rectal problems
7. Foot problems
8. Nail problems
9. Common trauma
10. Removal of foreign bodies
11. Musculoskeletal medicine
12. Orodental problems
13. Ear, nose and throat
14. The eyes
15. Tips on treating children
16. The skin
17. Varicose veins
18. Miscellaneous

About the Author

John Murtagh, AM, is Executive Director, Education at the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Adjunct Professor of General Practice at the Department of Community Medicine and General Practice , Monash University, Victoria, Australia. He is one of Australia's leading GPs and community educators. A Professor in General Practice in the School of Primary Health Care at Monash University in Melbourne, Professorial Fellow in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle.