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Emotional Female

By Yumiko Kadota

Emotional Female Memories

Emotional Female

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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 werent 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2021-03-02
Publication Date:
2021-03-02
Publisher:
Viking Australia
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1760894621
Weight:
490 g
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