Resignation points to rift in surgical community

Dr. Linda Brodsky, a pediatric otolaryngologist based in Buffalo, N.Y., was part of a prominent, decade-long gender discrimination lawsuit and is an advocate for female surgeons. While she admits something about the piece didn’t make sense upon first reading it, she wasn’t offended. “I could see that he was trying to be clever,” she says, citing the Valentine’s Day reference. “He tried to take folklore and link it to the science.