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.”

This Week's Episode.
Exposing Medical Negligence: Why Kay Van Wey Started AdvoKAYte

Welcome to the very first episode of AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable!
[Episode Details: Why This Podcast?]
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.