The AdvoKayte Podcast: Holding Healthcare Accountable!

Kay Van Wey has worked for over 40 years to hold the American healthcare system to account. Too often, Kay has seen the effects of an industry that puts short-term profits ahead of the health outcomes of their customers, the American people.

The people need a space where their voices can be heard. In court, Kay Van Wey has gotten their cases heard and has successfully tried hundreds of cases of medical malpractice, negligence, and neglect.  Now, in her own small way, Kay wants to help amplify and clarify those voices.

Welcome to AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable, a podcast series dedicated to exposing and reforming the rot that has taken hold in the roots of the health care system.  

“As I have always said and believed, most doctors are good doctors — and good people. But the system for how we identify, report, and stop bad doctors is failing patients. The tragedy of the Christopher Duntsch story is that so many patients were harmed before he could be stopped. This is just incomprehensible and unacceptable.”

AdvoKayte: Episode 5: December 10th, 2025.
Inside the System That Let Dr. Death Operate: A Candid Talk with Anne Roberts

AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable.
Credentialing and Peer Review are linchpins of patient safety in a health care system that is responsible for vetting and monitoring the people who are allowed to practice in it. This episode features medical staffing expert Anne Roberts who, over a thirty-year career, helped develop national standards in best practices around vetting and credentialing doctors, surgeons, and other medical practitioners. Anne explains the credentialing and peer review processes and helps us understand how the system works and how it can be exploited. It is a fascinating and sometimes disturbing look at how the medical system takes care over the people who take care of us.

AdvoKayte: Episode 4: December 3rd, 2025.
Residency Programs 101: What Failed in the Dr. Death Case: Kay Interviews Dr. Martin Lazar

AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable.
Welcome back to AdvoKayte. What should a responsible person do when confronted with something so obviously wrong it simply can’t be overlooked by someone who considers themselves to be a responsible person? After he ascertained the unbelievable, that Christopher Duntsch was a trained neurosurgeon who was licensed to practice in Texas, Dr. Henderson tried to get someone in authority to stop Duntsch. Sadly, most part, local, state, and even federal medical and law enforcement officials didn’t know what to do with the Duntsch case, so they passed the buck to the next office, leaving Dr Henderson extremely frustrated and increasingly alarmed. Dr. Henderson walks Kay through a litany of other seemingly responsible offices and authorities who consistently passed on taking responsibility for Duntsch. 

AdvoKayte: Episode 3: November 26th, 2025.
Speaking Out Against Dr. Death: Dr. Robert Henderson’s Fight for Patient Safety: Part 2: 

AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable.
Welcome back to AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable. In Part Two of this riveting episode, Kay Van Wey continues her conversation with Dr. Robert Henderson as he shares the aftermath of his decision to speak out about Dr. Christopher Duntsch. Despite enormous resistance, Dr. Henderson persisted—filing reports, contacting medical boards, and ultimately helping bring a dangerous surgeon to justice. This episode dives into the consequences he faced for blowing the whistle, the failures of peer review systems, and the systemic flaws that allow unsafe physicians to continue practicing.

AdvoKayte: Episode 2: November 19th, 2025.
Speaking Out Against Dr. Death: Dr. Robert Henderson’s Fight for Patient Safety: Part 1: 

AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable.
 In this powerful episode, Kay Van Wey sits down with Dr. Robert Henderson, the spine surgeon who took a stand and helped expose one of the most shocking medical scandals in modern history: the Dr. Death case. Dr. Henderson shares his firsthand account of how he became involved in the case of Christopher Duntsch, what he discovered during the revision surgery that changed everything, and the moment he realized he had a duty to speak up—no matter the cost. Despite immense pressure, personal risk, and a system designed to protect physicians over patients, Dr. Henderson chose truth and transparency. His courage not only protected future patients but also helped ignite a national conversation about medical oversight, credentialing failures, and the urgent need for reform.

AdvoKayte: Episode: 1. November 1st, 2025.
Exposing Medical Negligence: Dr. Death & Why Kay Van Wey Started AdvoKayte

Welcome to the very first episode of AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable.
Hosted by nationally recognized medical malpractice attorney Kay Van Wey, this podcast is dedicated to empowering patients, families, and caregivers to navigate today’s complex healthcare system.In this episode, Kay shares her personal journey—from her small-town roots to becoming a leading advocate for patient safety. Best known for her role in the infamous Dr. Death case, Kay opens up about why she’s spent over 40 years fighting for justice and why this podcast is her next step in making healthcare safer for everyone.

Kay Van Wey is nationally known for her fight to get justice for victims of Christopher Duntsch, a Texas neurosurgeon who earned the nickname Dr. Death for not following proper procedures while performing surgeries under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Duntsch left 31 patients permanently maimed. He killed 2 others. In the process of representing a number of Duntsch’s patients in court, Kay exposed the utter lack of protection offered by regulatory bodies charged with protecting patients from negligent doctors and other forms of medical malpractice. 

Now serving the equivalent of a life sentence near Huntsville Texas, Duntsch won’t be eligible to apply for parole until 2045 when he will be 74 years old. His victims will suffer for the rest of their lives. The system that closed ranks behind Dr. Death continues to protect bad actors in health care? It continues to grind on, revictimizing survivors of medical malpractice. 

“There are things that I’ve seen, and things that I know after all of these decades of doing this work that other people need to know.”

“Ultimiately, I’m trying to make my own little dent in the universe. I’m trying to do something that can help people. That’s the jist of it.”

Kay teaches classes at law schools on medical malpractice. Her and law partner Luke Metzler speak at legal conferences across the country. Her life ambition is to not only raise the issues surrounding medical malpractice as loudly and openly as possible but to use her knowledge of the truths behind the American medical system to push that system to the point where it has no option but to reform itself. This series of podcasts gives her an even larger venue, one that lets her speak directly to the people most affected by the intricacies of bad actors in health care, the American public. 

“I don’t want to call it a calling, that’s too strong but, it’s my life’s purpose. It’s my life’s work, it’s my life’s purpose.”

Join Kay Van Wey and co-host Kalee Dionne Pair as they explore aspects of our health care systems most of us don’t know exist. We’re going to talk about the cover-ups, the profiteering, the legal and legislative frameworks that protect bad actors and the massive health care corporations that hire and enable them. 

“Don’t look at your feet, just dance.” - sign taped to Van Wey’s computer monitor

As they often say, it’s not the error as much as it’s the attempts to pretend it never happened. Kay knows it happens. She’s experienced it personally and has dedicated her life to fighting for people suffering from what should be preventable, avoidable injuries from trusting someone committing medical malpractice. It happens more often than you want to think. Together we demand better, safer care. Every patient matters and every patient’s story matters. We’re going to tell them. Please join us.