Harlem is my community. We brought Mayor Mamdani face to face with residents. Hard questions. Real accountability. Housing. Health. And outrage when education was left out. Your building is the exposure. Your neighborhood is the diagnosis. We speak up. #HarlemVotes #HealthEquity #DivineNine

War raises oil prices. Oil raises gas prices. Gas raises grocery prices. All because Trump decided to play warlord. This is how global conflict hits your wallet. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #GasPrices #WarInIran #Trump #Economy

When rhetoric escalates, so do the responses. Even those are the far right are now calling for consideration of the 25th Amendment. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #25thAmendment #Trump #Iran #WarinIran

Some physicians have said on record they’re concerned about warning signs in Trump’s cognitive health. Changes in speech, memory, and behavior are drawing increasing attention. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

This is a moment that will be remembered. A sitting president posting extreme threats on social media during rising global tensions isn’t just political noise. It’s history in real time. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Iran #WarInIran #Trump

A senior resident asked about a patient: “Is she an Ay Ay Ay or an Oy Oy Oy?” Six words. Implicit bias in one sentence. Black women are 0.7% of orthopaedic surgeons. Not an accident. The planned outcome. The door was not going to open. So we built a different one. #BlackWomenInMedicine #HealthEquity

Six years ago today. Cornell sent Zeke home with a pulse ox. Come back at 80%. At Lincoln we had no oxygen tanks. No monitors. We told patients: call an ambulance when you can’t walk across your living room. Same city. Two versions of who survives. Rest well, BIL. Love is a verb. #COVID19

He walked into my exam room on his tippy toe. His heel never touched the floor. The X-ray showed a shadow no one had noticed. What I found changed how I practice medicine. It connects directly to that whiteboard. The Shadow on the X-Ray. On Substack now. drhaydeebrown.substack.com

This whiteboard should be in every hospital boardroom in America. This isn’t a leadership crisis. It’s an ownership crisis. Credit: Dr. Eric Arzubi, MD.

The citizenship debate could worsen health inequality. Maternal health in the U.S. is already unequal. Changing birthright citizenship could widen those gaps from the moment a child is born. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #BirthrightCitizenship

Birthright citizenship is being challenged in court. This isn’t just legal theory. It could impact newborns across the U.S. and shape public health outcomes for entire communities. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #BirthrightCitizenship #SupremeCourt

What the 14th Amendment actually says and what this could mean for newborns across America. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

The 14th Amendment (birthright citizenship) was born as a direct correction to racism. If birthright citizenship changes, the impact won’t be equal. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #14thAmendment

Your foot is talking to you. Most doctors aren’t listening. 26 bones. 33 joints. 100+ tendons and ligaments. Running doubles to triples the load on every step. When it’s off — your knee, hip, and back pay the price. Your symptoms are not your diagnosis. They are a clue. drhaydeebrown.substack.com

Mr. Alvin Ailey corrected my form when I was nine years old. I had no idea he was teaching me how to diagnose. Ballet Hispánico → Ailey → DTH → med school → OR. That's not a background. That's a through line. drhaydeebrown.substack.com

While we watch airport lines — Women in ortho training are 2x more likely to be dismissed than men. Black trainees are 7.2x more likely than White trainees. Same pattern. Different system. Same question: What is it protecting? drhaydeebrown.substack.com

While airports are in chaos, a bill is moving quietly through Congress. The SAVE Act. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #SAVEAct #TSA #ICE

Did you know that ICE in the airports is part of Project 2025? @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #ICE #TSA #AirportChaos #Project2025

JUST IN: Scott MacFarlane responds to the White House’s comments about him joining MeidasTouch. Watch: youtu.be/U8yx8w2BeRE?...

Science just won a critical battle. A federal judge has blocked sweeping changes to childhood vaccine policy, pushing back on efforts that could reshape public health. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

A federal judge blocks RFK Jr.'s changes to childhood vaccine policy. Science-based public health guidance still matters! @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Vaccines #RFKJr

Science just won in court!! @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

War is debated in political terms. Doctors see the aftermath. Collapsing healthcare systems, environmental disasters, and civilians bearing the stress of it all. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #War #Iran #WarInIran

A child killed in war is a failure of humanity. It does not matter if it happens in Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, or anywhere else. War destroys hospitals. But it also collapses the systems that keep communities alive. Follow us at @elladisruptors.bsky.social! @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

Their parents are called “illegal.” Their children are called “soldier.” Same country. Same family. #Iran #War #Immigrants #ICE @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

War is a public health crisis. Destroyed hospitals. Collapsing healthcare systems. Generational trauma. The human cost is enormous. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Iran #War

On health and this Iran war…This week on @elladisruptors.bsky.social w @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social youtu.be/XdZBa7s6HEI?...

our newest @elladisruptors.bsky.social is out!

Congrats to my @meidastouch.com partners in this work to protect our democracy!

Measles is not harmless. It spreads rapidly, especially where vaccination rates fall. The current outbreak is a warning sign for the health system. @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Measles #VaccinesSaveLives

This is how public health backslides: fewer vaccinations, more outbreaks, preventable hospitalizations. Measles is re-surging in real time. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Measles #Vaccines #VaccinesSaveLives

TrumpRx repackages pharmacy counter discounts and markets them as reform. The structure driving high drug prices remains exactly the same. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #ELLAPodcast #TrumpRX #GoodRX #Healthcare #Prescriptions

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People called Kyle Rittenhouse a “hero” for killing civilians, yet when a VA ICU nurse is shot dead by federal agents while trying to help others, we get excuses and gaslighting. That’s not consistency, that’s hypocrisy. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

Alex Pretti and Renée Nicole Good should be alive. The facts don’t match the spin. When power kills and evades scrutiny, people must demand the truth. @drhaydeebrown.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

Renée Nicole Good’s death during a federal operation shows what happens when humanity is pushed aside in moments that demand it most. @elladisruptors.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

We take a pledge to first do no harm. What’s happening in Minnesota & blocked physicians from administering aid is unconscionable Our newest @elladisruptors.bsky.social

This isn’t about bedside manner. It’s about survival. The data on women surgeons is clear - and so is what erasure costs patients. My Full reflection ⬇️

So many great points @marcelias.bsky.social

It is our duty to remember and to hold those corporations and companies accountable TODAY

A new White House healthcare plan is making bold claims about lowering costs. But the details matter. When you line it up against the ACA, the tradeoffs become clear, and not everyone comes out better. @elladisruptors.bsky.social @sonyasloanmd.bsky.social @meidastouch.com #Healthcare #ACA

Any one of us could be detained for hours by ICE despite being a U.S. citizen. Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

This is crazy… let’s see the faces of ICE agents…let’s hold everyone accountable to standards on how to treat other human beings.

I’m so proud to be a native NYer Let’s move forward in equity, affordability , and justice for all here in my beloved city We are only as strong as our sickest neighbor. I’m not free until we all are free ✊🏾

Carmen de Lavallade, Dancer Whose Career Spanned the Arts, Dies at 94 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/a...

We lost a dance icon yesterday… Rest in Power Carmen De Lavallade youtu.be/T3LeDAOOoCQ?...

By paying those working less than $20/hr, the wealthiest become wealthier. When the richest few own so much, we the people and our democracy itself loses. And the ACA tax credits expire shortly…