A young surgical trainee dismissed as “an emotional female” was made to work up to 70 hours a week and on-call for seven days straight at a Sydney hospital.

Dr Yumiko Kadota was hospitalised for six weeks for sleep deprivation last year after an extreme case of junior doctor exploitation, with her repeated pleas for help ignored by senior staff at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital.

Dr Yumiko Kadota gave up her ambitions of becoming a reconstructive surgeon after being worked to breaking point at Bankstown Hospital. Credit:James Brickwood

“You are killing yourself for a job that would replace you within a week if you dropped dead,” the registrar warned in a blog post published this week.

Dr Kadota's case has angered Health Minister Brad Hazzard who called in the hospital’s senior management on Tuesday.