Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 10hThe evidence supports an association between lower quality care and PE acquisition of medical practice 010
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026After private equity bought hospitals, ER deaths among Medicare patients rose 13% as those hospitals cut 11.6% of full-time staff (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2025). The staff goes first. Then patient care follows. My essay on PE in medicine and H.R. 10444:drhaydeebrown.substack.comWhen Physicians DisappearER deaths rose 13% after private equity bought hospitals that cut staff. What happens to your doctor, and to you, after the buyout. 5126
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownSonya Sloan, M.D. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It’s about to get a whole lot worse after this election. @meidastouch.com @elladisruptors.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=znLU...youtube.comTrump Healthcare NIGHTMARE Just Got VERY REAL…YouTube video by MeidasTouch 265
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026CW: sexual assault. Gov. Hochul just replaced the Tompkins County DA with AG Letitia James as special prosecutor in the #Cornell case. As a surgeon, I keep asking who owned the handoff. Now someone does. #IAmJaneDoe My essay on Cornell, consent, and first-year orientation:drhaydeebrown.substack.comWhen Accountability DisappearsOn Cornell, Consent, and First Year Orientation 091
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Roughly 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 2111
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Abdul El-Sayed is just so good at this. 511176394
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026On 9/11 drhaydeebrown.substack.com/p/there-the-...drhaydeebrown.substack.comThere, the Soot9/11, Twenty Five Years Later: A Remembrance 040
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownThe Highlands Current @highlandscurrent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Former 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 02511
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026My 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.comdrhaydeebrown.substack.comHaydee Brown, MD | SubstackMedicine, 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... 071
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026In 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 (283drhaydeebrown.substack.comHaydee Brown, MD | SubstackMedicine, 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... 061
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Yesterday 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.comdrhaydeebrown.substack.comHaydee Brown, MD | SubstackMedicine, 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... 163
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 14/07/2026At 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. 35122
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 26/06/2026A 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.comdrhaydeebrown.substack.comHaydee Brown, MD | SubstackMedicine, 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... 071
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Yeah. It was pretty horrible. But I didn’t even register it as such at the time. I was just glad for the hours learning shoulder arthroscopy. That is how deep the normalizing goes. You are so grateful for the training that you do not stop to name what you are putting up with to get it. 010
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I 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.open.substack.comJUST KEEP OPERATINGOn the environments medicine builds, and the surgeons it loses. 231
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 17/06/2026He 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 0113
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 17/06/2026No, 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 092
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 12/06/2026An 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...open.substack.comThe Room We Walked Out OfAn Ebola outbreak, a country that quit the room, and what it costs to walk away. 24728
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/06/202610+ 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 12669138
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Thanks to our @meidastouch.com team. @meiselasb.bsky.social @meiselasb.bsky.social @meidasjordy.bsky.social & Sydney! 091
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 26/05/2026A 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 0239
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 26/05/2026A 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 1195
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Growing 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 1136
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Today 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. 090
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Dr. 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 1328
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The 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 0157
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 13/05/2026A 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 0116
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 12/05/2026SCOTUS 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/pusjJypmjLoyoutu.beTrump HEALTH CRISIS Hits RED STATES Hard!!YouTube video by MeidasTouch 075
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 08/05/2026That 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 1403
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 07/05/2026My new essay makes the clinical case for what that ruling will cost. Helena's photograph. An ED in July. The new ACOG president. And the Chief Justice who started weakening the VRA at the Reagan DOJ at twenty-seven. drhaydeebrown.substack.comdrhaydeebrownsubstack.com 052
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 07/05/2026My 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. 13418
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 06/05/2026A 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. 0144
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Less 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 055
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Higher 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 093
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - 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 273
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 04/05/2026This 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 0294
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. Brownwatertigernyc @watertigernyc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026No lie detected. 111137237
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Congress 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 082
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The 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 1208
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Federal 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 062
Reposted by Dr. Haydée C. BrownELLA - Black & Brown Women Disruptors @elladisruptors.bsky.social · 28/04/2026TrumpRx 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 063
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Residency 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 053
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I 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.drhaydeebrown.substack.comHaydee Brown, MD | SubstackMedicine, 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... 071
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Medicine 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.drhaydeebrown.substack.comHaydee Brown, MD | SubstackMedicine, 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... 0155
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Manhattan, 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 020
Dr. Haydée C. Brown @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social · 22/04/2026The board documents what the law does, not what anyone wishes it did. Physicians are legally barred from structures that lawyers and private equity operate freely. That asymmetry is the whole point. Whether a national health system is better is a separate question. 100