Dr Michelle Johnston is an author and Emergency Medicine Physician. She works as a senior consultant at Royal Perth Hospital, an inner city  level one trauma centre in Australia. She is committed to clinical care and teaching, and was awarded the Australasian College For Emergency Medicine's Teaching Excellence Award. 

Her first book Dustfall, released in February of 2018  is a story about medical error and its consequences. She has dedicated her career to finding the sweet spot between creativity and critical care, and believes there is a beating heart of humanity within the sometimes brutal world of emergency medicine.

In today's episode we speak about Michelle's highly anticipated second novel Tiny Uncertain Miracles published 2022 by Harper Collins.

From Michelle's website: "Awkward, hapless Marick is still struggling with the loss of his wife, his child and his faith when he is reluctantly thrust into the position of chaplain at a large public hospital. Shortly after arriving, he meets Hugo, a hospital scientist and a man almost as lost as Marick himself, who is working in a forgotten lab, deep in the subterranean realms of the hospital. Hugo is convinced that the bacteria he uses for protein production have – unbelievably – begun to produce gold. Is it alchemy, evolution, a hoax or even … possibly … a miracle? In the meantime, Christmas is approaching, the number of homeless outside the hospital is increasing, the Director of Operational Services is pressing Marick about his weekly KPIs, you can’t buy chocolate in the hospital shop anymore, and Marick keeps waking with nightmares at 4 am every night. If ever a miracle was needed, it’s now."