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.
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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.
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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.
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#CDC #Vaccines #Measles
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.
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#Femicide #SayHerName #DrCerinaFairfax #DomesticViolence
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.
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#Femicide #SayHerName #DrCerinaWanzerFairfax
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
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.
1.63 million excess deaths tied to racial inequity over 20 years. JAMA 2023. My grandmother knew this before the study did. She just called it Sunday best. New essay on Substack.
Just dropped on Substack. 75 subscribers got it first.
Here is what it says. A Black CDC epidemiologist with two PhDs died 3 weeks after childbirth. Her providers kept sending her home. Black Maternal Health Week. Read it.
“A whole civilization will die.”
A statement made by a sitting U.S. president.
Experts warn this rhetoric could have catastrophic consequences and may violate international law.
This moment matters.
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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.
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#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.
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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.
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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.
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#Iran #WarInIran #Trump
I write every Thursday about medicine, power, and what gets protected. Free to read. Deeper for those who want it. drhaydeebrown.substack.com
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.
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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.
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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.
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#BirthrightCitizenship #SupremeCourt
What the 14th Amendment actually says and what this could mean for newborns across America.
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The 14th Amendment (birthright citizenship) was born as a direct correction to racism.
If birthright citizenship changes, the impact won’t be equal.
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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.
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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.
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Source: Haruno et al., JAMA Surgery 2023. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2022.7640
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?
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“ Thank you for seeing the light” assumes the light was ever hidden.
We’ve been standing in it.
As a physician, I don’t “thank” patients for finally accepting the treatment plan.
We make the decision to move forward - together.
Acknowledge. Align. Act.
Signed,
The #92percent #Ella
