All NEW Season 2!
The AdvoKAYte Podcast: Holding Healthcare Accountable.
~ with Attorney Kay Van Wey | Go to Season 1
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 had 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.
Kay and Luke Discuss What Matters to Them.
Last season, we used the extreme example of Christopher Dunsch, otherwise known as Dr. Death, to show how badly things can go wrong when accountability systems fail.
This season we’re going to take a more personal approach. This year will feature people you probably haven’t heard of, folks whose stories won’t make the national news. This season, we are going to look beyond the individual bad apples to examine a health care system that is fundamentally broken.
These are the people behind the cases that my partner, Attorney Luke Metzler, and I work through each and every day.
Beyond Dr. Death: Season 2: Episodes
AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable: Season 2: Episode 4
In this episode, Mount Sinai’s VP for Systems, Anne Roberts, and Kay consider the question: How does a hospital sustain the compassion of healthcare while accounting for the costs of doing its business? Anne’s decades of experience, combined with Kay’s vast legal overview, provide us with a wealth of insights and direct observations. This is the second of three episodes featuring Anne Roberts.
Does a healthcare organization operate with the corporate culture of a profit-focused business, or do they prioritize patient safety? What does a “Just Culture” look like in a hospital, and what does it take to sustain it? Join us for an interesting in-depth look at how compassion can mix with business’ bottom lines.
AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable: Season 2: Episode 3
This episode is a direct view of the best practices in governance and administration of American hospitals. Patient safety advocate, lawyer, and hospital administrator, Anne Roberts, details how an organizational culture of safety produces better outcomes for everyone, from patients to our healthcare providers themselves.
AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable: Season 2: Episode 2
Matt Austin, a Patient Safety Expert at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. An engineer with a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Matt talks to Kay about ways to dramatically improve the safety of our healthcare sector for both patients and practitioners. “Is it bad people or bad systems that cause errors?” Matt asks, “I think bad people are a pretty small minority of the harm that occurs in healthcare. We haven’t designed systems in ways that let healthcare workers deliver the best care all the time in every situation.”
This is a fascinating episode that takes a deep dive into how failures in parts of the system cause breakdowns throughout the broader system, and how those breakdowns could be avoided. Imagine if the healthcare sector faced the same public scrutiny as the airline or nuclear industries.
AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable: Season 2: Episode 1
Season 2 begins with a very special conversation between host Kay Van Wey and her law partner, Luke Metzler, a birth injury attorney at Van Wey & Metzler Law Firm in Dallas, Texas. After Season 1 explored the shocking failures behind the Dr. Death case, Kay and Luke are widening the lens. This season is not just about the cases that make headlines. It is about the families whose lives change in an instant because of medical malpractice, preventable medical errors, birth injuries, hospital negligence, and healthcare system failures.
These are the stories Kay and Luke see in their work every day.
About Kay Van Wey.
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.
Kay teaches classes at law schools on medical malpractice. She and law partner, Attorney Luke Metzler, speak at legal conferences across the country. Her life ambition is not only to 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.”
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.
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