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Dr. Haydée C. Brown

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Ortho Surgeon 🔧 | Afro-Latina | Harlem|💚🩷1908 💗💙 1938| Founder @bwos2020 | Co-Host @elladisruptors.bsky.social| Medicine, power & what gets protected drhaydeebrown.substack.com | Views=Mine

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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Roughly 300 people were on Horn Island on July 4. Nolan Wells, 18, never came home. Two days later he was found in the water. A grand jury says he chose to stay behind. His parents reject that. A finding is not an answer. Justice for Nolan. 9/30/2026 #BlackoutforNolan #SayHisName
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed is just so good at this.
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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There, the Soot
9/11, Twenty Five Years Later: A Remembrance
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The Highlands Current @highlandscurrent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Former Gov. George Pataki, who lives in Garrison, revealed last week that he has a lung disease related to his exposure to toxins at Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks. buff.ly/IRGKF1F
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My family’s August ritual on Martha’s Vineyard taught me the value of rest before I had the research. Chronic short sleep is linked to higher cardiovascular risk and mortality. Black adults carry a disproportionate share of poor sleep health, tied to racism. Thursday: drhaydeebrown.substack.com
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Haydee Brown, MD | Substack
Medicine, power, and what gets protected. Written by an orthopaedic surgeon who is still in the OR — and still paying attention. New Substack every Thursday. Click to read Haydee Brown, MD, a Substack...
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Exactly
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In NYC, Black residents died of COVID at roughly 245 per 100,000 against 123 for white residents. A statue of J. Marion Sims stood in Harlem for 84 years. Earned distrust and a documented death toll are both true. New essay: drhaydeebrown.substack.com (283
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Medicine, power, and what gets protected. Written by an orthopaedic surgeon who is still in the OR — and still paying attention. New Substack every Thursday. Click to read Haydee Brown, MD, a Substack...
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yesterday AAOS warned a proposed Medicare rule would push orthopaedics, one of the last independent specialties, toward consolidation. The AMA already counted the shift: in 2012 most physicians worked for themselves. By 2024 most did not. drhaydeebrown.substack.com
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Medicine, power, and what gets protected. Written by an orthopaedic surgeon who is still in the OR — and still paying attention. New Substack every Thursday. Click to read Haydee Brown, MD, a Substack...
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
At major nonprofit medical centers, mean CEO compensation rose 93% from 2005 to 2015. Physician pay rose 10%. Inpatient stays fell. They were not paid more because more care was delivered. Physicians are leaving and we call it burnout. Clin Orthop Relat Res, 2018.
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A physician died after post-op warning signs were missed. A jury just awarded her family $7.73M. Her credentials did not protect her. I wrote this week on the unnamed labor clinicians of color carry to keep their own families safe in a biased system. Sourced: drhaydeebrown.substack.com
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Medicine, power, and what gets protected. Written by an orthopaedic surgeon who is still in the OR — and still paying attention. New Substack every Thursday. Click to read Haydee Brown, MD, a Substack...
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I kept my hands on the arthroscope and waited for it to stop. I did not report it. Most of us did not. My goal was to ignore it and learn how to scope a shoulder. That silence, and what it costs medicine, is what last Thursday's essay is about.
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JUST KEEP OPERATING
On the environments medicine builds, and the surgeons it loses.
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
He had a valid visa. He was coming to officiate a World Cup match. Instead, he was detained and sent home because he came from a country experiencing an Ebola outbreak. Science should drive policy. Fear should not. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Ebola
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
No, you're not going to get Ebola sitting next to someone at a World Cup stadium. Ebola spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person. Facts over fear. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Ebola #WorldCup #CDC #PublicHealth
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
An Ebola strain with no approved vaccine is spreading in the DRC. The year before, the US cut roughly 70 CDC disease detectives, quit the WHO, and moved to halve the CDC budget. We dismantled prevention, then paid late. Free essay: open.substack.com/pub/drhaydee...
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The Room We Walked Out Of
An Ebola outbreak, a country that quit the room, and what it costs to walk away.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/06/2026
10+ MILLION VIEWS!!! Congrats to Drs. Haydée Brown and Sonya Sloan on the success of ELLA on the MeidasTouch Network! Here's to 10M more! @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Thanks to our @meidastouch.com team. @meiselasb.bsky.social @meiselasb.bsky.social @meidasjordy.bsky.social & Sydney!
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A growing Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda is raising concern among global health experts. Weakened disease surveillance, public health cuts, and the U.S. pulling out of WHO have left the world more vulnerable. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A rare Ebola strain. Weakened surveillance systems. The U.S. pulling out of the World Health Organization. This is why experts are sounding the alarm. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Ebola #Hantavirus #WorldHealthOrganization #PublicHealth
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Growing Ebola outbreak. Weaker surveillance systems. Less global coordination. Experts warn the U.S. leaving the World Health Organization means we may have less visibility into outbreaks as they spread. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Ebola #PublicHealth
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Today my cousin Maya Doig-Acuña defended her doctoral dissertation at Harvard, on how Afro-Panamanian families preserve memory the official archive leaves out, tracing it across Panama and Brooklyn through the women who keep it. P'alante, prima.
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Dr. Clare becomes the first Black woman president of American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. A moment that could not matter more as Black women remain 2.5–3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The science reportedly showed the vaccines were safe. The findings were blocked anyway. What else are they hiding? @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Vaccines #Science
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A federally funded study reportedly found no major safety concerns with COVID-19 & shingles vaccines. But the findings were blocked from publication after failing to support a preferred narrative. That should concern everyone. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
SCOTUS made Section 2 of the VRA harder to use against minority vote dilution. Kagan called it the “demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” The same communities losing hospitals are losing voting power. CDC 2024: Black maternal mortality 44.8 vs 14.2. Kindergarten MMR 92.5%. youtu.be/pusjJypmjLo
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Trump HEALTH CRISIS Hits RED STATES Hard!!
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
That little girl in the pink dress had no idea what was coming. At 17, I watched Dr. Jo Hannafin perform surgery & knew orthopaedics was it. The girl in pink picked up a scalpel. She still uses it today. drhaydeebrown.substack.com
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
My great-grandmother graduated Hampton Institute in 1889. She still couldn't safely vote in the 1950s. This week SCOTUS gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais. When the franchise codes, Black bodies follow.
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A Black woman now leads ACOG for the first time. Dr. Camille A. Clare (@cclareMDMPH.bsky.social) is its 77th president. The field began with J. Marion Sims, who operated on enslaved Black girls without consent or anesthesia. Anarcha. Betsey. Lucy. She inherits that history and this moment.
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Less for healthcare. More for war. More for ICE. Rural hospitals are closing. Access to care is shrinking. And the impact falls hardest on the communities already at risk. This isn’t just policy. It’s priorities. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Higher premiums. Less access to care. Tax cuts for billionaires. The impact falls hardest on communities already at risk. This isn’t political. This is clinical. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #healthcare #medicare
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
$1 trillion cut from healthcare. Black and brown women already face the highest maternal mortality rates. Less access to care won’t fix that. It will make it worse. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #healthcare
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This is my family, 1950s. Helena Major Phillips graduated Hampton in 1889, 24 years after emancipation. They built, educated, and led, yet could not safely vote until 1965. The system is not broken. I build on Helena’s legacy, still pushing forward. #HealthEquity #BlackWomenInMedicine
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watertigernyc @watertigernyc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
No lie detected.
There is a direct line, a frozen rope, a bullet train, connecting the moment she was not believed to today. So clear you can see it from space.
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Congress called the residency match a monopoly. Today's essay names what comes next. Empty slots. Dismissal data. Peer-reviewed numbers. A bill in both chambers. And the story of a man buried in his scrubs. Free. No paywall. drhaydeebrown.substack.com
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The physician shortage is not inevitable. Here’s the math. UNM lost 8 residents. Hired 23 replacements. Cost 5x more. Residents: $12.38 per RVU. APPs: $22.46. We’re not short on future physicians. We’re short on a system that lets them practice. Thursday essay is free: drhaydeebrown.substack.com
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Federal health dollars. A hot tub video of RFK Jr. with Kid Rock. Meanwhile, real public health needs go underfunded. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #HHS #RFKJr #PublicHealth
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
TrumpRx claims a 600% reduction in drug prices. That’s not just wrong. It’s impossible. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #TrumpRx #DrugCosts #Medicine #PublicHealth
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Residency match called a monopoly by Congress. 2026: 53,373 applied. 2,862 slots unfilled. Thousands unmatched. Same year. 187,130 physician shortage projected by 2037. Not a workforce problem. A design problem. Thursday. drhaydeebrown.substack.com
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I grew up with Hector Lavoe music playing, arroz con pollo on the stove, and a pan-Africanist circle gathering some Sundays in a Marx’s Capital study group. That is the world that shaped my values. None of this is self-care. It is what survival requires. Full argument is on my Substack paid tier.
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Medicine, power, and what gets protected. Written by an orthopaedic surgeon who is still in the OR — and still paying attention. New Substack every Thursday. Click to read Haydee Brown, MD, a Substack...
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Medicine is burning out its Black women physicians. Black women are 2.8% of the physician workforce. Black Americans are 13.7% of the population. When a Black infant is cared for by a Black physician the mortality gap between Black and white newborns is halved. Not a theory. Data.
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Medicine, power, and what gets protected. Written by an orthopaedic surgeon who is still in the OR — and still paying attention. New Substack every Thursday. Click to read Haydee Brown, MD, a Substack...
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Manhattan, April 2020. A priest. A glass door. A city that had gone silent. Today’s essay is about what I built from that week. drhaydeebrown.substack.com
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"Doc, the streets are calling my name.” He said it every time we talked about discharge. He came to me with an open ankle fracture the system never fixed because it incarcerated him days before his scheduled surgery. He walked on it for nearly a year. You can't be weak in jail. We fixed it.
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
100+ people chose to read my thinking every week. Not scroll past it. Not like it. Read it. They signed up for essays on medicine, power, and what the system costs the people it was never designed to serve. If you've been meaning to subscribe, now is a good time. drhaydeebrown.substack.com
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Two Black women orthopaedic surgeons in a Chicago hotel room. One conversation. One pitch to MeidasTouch. One show. Then Kamala Harris was nominated and we never looked back. Ella exists because we got tired of being asked to be less. @elladisruptors.bsky.social drhaydeebrown.substack.com
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Multiple CDC leadership changes since Jan. 2025. Now a new director steps in as a measles outbreak grows. Instability in public health has real consequences, especially for communities already at risk. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #CDC #PublicHealth
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A new CDC director steps in as measles cases rise. But the bigger issue is instability. The CDC has seen multiple leadership changes since January 2025. That matters for how outbreaks are handled. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #CDC #Vaccines #Measles
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ELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Say her name. Dr. Cerina W. Fairfax. This is femicide. She was killed by her husband after serving divorce papers. Leaving is often the most dangerous moment. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Femicide #SayHerName #DrCerinaFairfax #DomesticViolence
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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She Was Not a Footnote
Femicide, patriarchy, and the laws that trap women in the most dangerous moment of their lives.
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The femicide carousel gave you the data. The essay goes deeper. She Was Not a Footnote - the UN definition of patriarchy, the five facts, the Virginia law that trapped her, and what you do now. Live on Substack. drhaydeebrown.substack.com #Femicide #SayHerName #DrCerinaWanzerFairfax
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Seven Black women. One month. April 2026. Dr. Cerina Fairfax. Pastor Tammy McCollum. Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer. Ashly Robinson. Qualeshia Barnes. Davonta Curtis. Barbara Deer. Femicide is preventable. Risk peaks when she tries to leave. This is a system. Say their names. #Femicide #SayHerName
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Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
My grandfather wore his collar to the doctor as a survival strategy. I wore a hastily clipped hospital ID in an ER hoping it would get my family member a troponin drawn. Same armor. Different generation. Same system. Sunday Best is live.
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