Kay Van Wey Launches AdvoKAYte Podcast to Expose Failures in American Healthcare
The American healthcare system has met one of its sharpest critics once again, and she now has a microphone. Attorney Kay Van Wey, known nationwide for her long track record of fighting medical negligence, has launched a new podcast called AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable. The show brings her forty years of experience straight to patients, families and caregivers, many of whom feel overwhelmed, ignored or dismissed by a system that too often puts profits ahead of safety.
In court, Van Wey has handled medical malpractice cases for decades. She has seen how hospitals and corporate health systems can hide behind layers of procedure as patients suffer the consequences. Her career includes hundreds of trials involving negligence and preventable harm. The podcast gives her a new way to lift those stories and highlight what goes wrong behind the scenes. She calls it a small contribution, but anyone familiar with her work knows her version of “small” carries weight.
The Story Behind the First Episode
The opening episode, titled “Exposing Medical Negligence,” sets the tone. Van Wey explains her path, from her rural upbringing to becoming one of the most recognized patient-safety advocates in the country. Many know her for her role in exposing the failures that allowed Texas neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch — later known as “Dr. Death” — to keep practicing even as patients were left paralyzed or worse. Duntsch harmed 31 people and killed two others before he was stopped. Van Wey represented several of those families. Her work helped reveal how weak the oversight systems were, including state boards and hospital committees meant to protect the public.
Duntsch is now serving what amounts to a life sentence, with parole eligibility decades away. His victims will live with life-altering injuries forever. Van Wey reminds listeners that Duntsch wasn’t an isolated event. He was a symptom of structural problems that still exist. The regulatory mechanisms that allowed him to slip through remain largely untouched. The public rarely hears the full story about how these failures happen. That gap is exactly why she created the podcast.
Why Van Wey Believes This Work Still Matters
Throughout the episode, Van Wey shares hard-earned insight from her career. She speaks openly about situations she has witnessed — situations most patients never hear about until it’s too late. She describes unsafe care, administrative cover-ups and the quiet machine that protects bad actors once complaints begin to surface. These patterns repeat across the country. She knows because she has seen them case after case.
Her goal is to give patients a fair shot at protecting themselves. It’s also to warn families before they trust the wrong person with their care. Her words come with a steady message: every patient matters and every story carries value. When stories go unheard, the cycle continues.
Teaching, Speaking and Shaping the Conversation
Outside the courtroom, Van Wey teaches medical malpractice courses at law schools. She and her colleague Luke Metzler speak at legal conferences across the country. These talks give lawyers a clearer view of how negligence cases unfold and what signs often go unnoticed in hospitals. She’s spent her entire career raising awareness of how oversight has weakened and how easily mistakes turn into tragedies when institutions choose silence over transparency.
She says her work isn’t a calling — her phrasing is more subtle — but she acknowledges it’s her purpose. She believes her role is to help push the system to a point where reform becomes unavoidable. The podcast expands that mission by placing information directly into the hands of the people who need it most.
What the Podcast Aims to Cover
Listeners can expect deep looks at how healthcare corporations operate, how internal cover-ups form and why patients rarely learn the full truth after an adverse event. Co-host Kalee Dionne Pair joins her each week to break down stories that rarely surface in mainstream coverage. Their conversations highlight the mechanics behind medical negligence cases, legislative gaps and the common tactics used to shield repeat offenders.
A small sign taped to Van Wey’s computer reads, “Don’t look at your feet, just dance.” It says a lot about the energy behind her new series. She knows the system can feel overwhelming for the average person. She also knows someone has to speak plainly about what’s really happening, without legal jargon or corporate gloss.
The message to listeners is straightforward: bad medical outcomes aren’t always unavoidable. Many injuries can be prevented. Many deaths should never have happened. By exposing patterns of misconduct, Van Wey hopes to give families the information they should have received long before entering a hospital room.
Each weekly episode brings her closer to that goal. It gives her a direct line to the people who often feel powerless in healthcare settings. With AdvoKAYte, Van Wey is taking decades of courtroom experience and shifting it onto a platform where more people can learn how the system actually works — and how it should work instead.
This new project offers something many Americans have been seeking: a source that will call out preventable harm, question corporate behavior and remind listeners that patient safety should never depend on how a hospital’s balance sheet looks. The show is a firm push for accountability, delivered through the voice of someone who has been fighting these issues far longer than most. It’s an invitation for patients to pay attention, ask harder questions and demand safer care for themselves and their families.