Dr Colleen Brophy, a professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University, said: 'The editorial was just a symptom of a much larger problem. The way the college is set up right now is for the sake of the leadership instead of patients.'
I was aghast, said Dr. Colleen Brophy, a professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, and a member of the organization for over 20 years. Dr. Brophy, who served as chairwoman of its surgical research committee, publicly resigned from the College on Thursday. Ive