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'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.' (Publication summary)
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Yumiko Kadota in Conversation
Chris Gordon
(interviewer),
Melbourne
:
Readings
,
2021
23474294
2021
single work
podcast
interview
'A conversation with author Yumiko Kadota to discuss her memoir, Emotional Female.' (Production summary)
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Books Roundup Dropbear, Emotional Female, Friends & Dark Shapes, Monsters
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , March 2021;
— Review of Dropbear 2021 selected work poetry essay ; Friends and Dark Shapes 2021 single work novel ; Emotional Female 2021 single work autobiography ; Monsters 2021 single work autobiography essay
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Books Roundup Dropbear, Emotional Female, Friends & Dark Shapes, Monsters
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , March 2021;
— Review of Dropbear 2021 selected work poetry essay ; Friends and Dark Shapes 2021 single work novel ; Emotional Female 2021 single work autobiography ; Monsters 2021 single work autobiography essay -
y
Yumiko Kadota in Conversation
Chris Gordon
(interviewer),
Melbourne
:
Readings
,
2021
23474294
2021
single work
podcast
interview
'A conversation with author Yumiko Kadota to discuss her memoir, Emotional Female.' (Production summary)