alison estabrook. >> guest: right. howard stringer's wife, jennifer patterson, was a dermatologist, who was a very good friend of alison's. they had met when they were residents together. and alison had called because she was very upset because she discovered that, first -- let me go back just a little bit -- there had been a history that when alison first had been hired at columbia she discovered accidentally about a year later that she was being paid $60,000 a year, while her two male colleagues with exactly the same credentials, started the same time were being paid $100,000 a year. jennifer had been aware of that because that had been a very unsettling discovery to alison. and when alison had confronted her superiors about that, they said, "oh, don't worry about it it's water under the bridge." and being someone who loved her job, she said, "ok. it's water under the bridge." a couple of years later, alison had been promised that she would be named the head of breast surgery at columbia when the two older chief breas