{"product_id":"emotional-female","title":"Emotional Female","description":"\u003cp\u003eYumiko 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEventually it was too much and Yumiko quit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmotional Female is her account of what it was like to train in the Australian public hospital system, and what made her walk away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYumiko 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67724002001213,"sku":"9781760894627","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3135\/9805\/files\/9781760894627.jpg?v=1792199253","url":"https:\/\/bookclub.org.nz\/products\/emotional-female","provider":"Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}