Emotional Female

Yumiko Kadota

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Penguin
18 January 2022

Memoirs; Social discrimination; Medical profession; Biography - Australian

A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training.

Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workaholic, she regularly put 'knife before life', knowing it was all going to be worth it because it would lead to her longed-for career.

But if the punishing hours in surgery weren't hard enough, she also faced challenges as a young female surgeon navigating a male-dominated specialty. She was regularly left to carry out complex procedures without senior surgeons' oversight; she was called all sorts of things, from 'emotional' to 'too confident'; and she was expected to work a relentless on-call roster - sometimes seventy hours a week or more - to prove herself.

Eventually it was too much and Yumiko quit.

Emotional Female is her account of what it was like to train in the Australian public hospital system, and what made her walk away.

Yumiko Kadota is a voice for her generation when it comes to burnout and finding the resilience to rebuild after suffering a physical, emotional and existential breakdown. This is a brave, honest and unflinching work from a major new talent.

By: Yumiko Kadota
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 270g
ISBN: 9781760894634
ISBN 10: 176089463X
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 18 January 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yumiko is a medical doctor from Sydney. She resigned from public hospital work after experiencing burnout and now works in medical education and private health. Her story entered mainstream media after she blogged in February 2019 about her experiences as a trainee in the health system, opening with the words- 'I never thought I would say this, but I broke. I give up. I am done. I am handing back my dream of becoming a surgeon.' Nowadays she's rebuilding herself, starting with her health. She blogs on wide range of topics that reflect her various interests; eco-warrior, yogi, book worm.