Michelle Johnston

Michelle Johnston has worked as a consultant Emergency Physician in her beloved Royal Perth Hospital, a down and dirty inner city hospital for over a decade. She is heavily involved in teaching, and loves clinical work, but when it comes to social media, she is like the syndromic cousin in the corner who gets brought out and patted on the head once in a while.

About Michelle Johnston

Lives for teaching and loves clinical work, but when it comes to social media, she is like the syndromic cousin in the corner who gets brought out and patted on the head once in a while. Creator of Physiology Philes and Socrates and Sophistry - + Michelle Johnston | Contact

Searching for Smaug

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The spontaneous tension pneumothorax…does it really exist?

Schrödinger’s Fence

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Schrödinger’s Fence…or, where we currently sit on the matter of thrombolysis in Acute Stroke. An Opinion Piece on IST-3

#ACEM2012 in perspective

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I write this in the dying moments of my time in Hobart; a city of unimaginable beauty, the hint of adventure and the trace of Antarctica in the winds, phenomenal and defiant art, and really excellent mini-bars…

Household Words Chapter 4

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A weekly periodical examining a rather extraordinary clinical encounter: Chapter 4: Medical Instincts

Calling all Fabulous Females of #FOAMed

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Michelle Johnston calls on the Fabulous Females of #FOAMed to get involved in FOAM and, in particular, the SimWars to be held at SMACC in Sydney March 11th to 13th 2013.

Household Words Chapter 3

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A weekly periodical examining a rather extraordinary clinical encounter: Chapter 3: Assault as Therapy

Household Words Chapter 2

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A weekly periodical examining a rather extraordinary clinical encounter: Chapter 2: The ethics of suicide

Household Words Chapter 1

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A weekly periodical examining a rather extraordinary clinical encounter: Chapter 1 – The Presentation

A Mortal Battle with Four Hour Medicine II

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Read on to find out the outcome of Michelle Johnston’s Mortal Battle with Four Hour Medicine…

A Mortal Battle with Four Hour Medicine

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The unexpected collides with 4 hour rule in the natural laboratory for error that is the emergency department… A post in two parts with Act 1: The Existential Installment and Act 2: The Clinical Section…WITH a cliffhanger.