Dr. Randall Kirby helped stop "Dr. Death" Christopher Duntsch. Ten years later,
a new D Magazine investigation places Kirby at the center of a controversy of
his own, and raises a harder question about the system itself.

Read the D Magazine article, "Dr. Death Redux": https://www.dmagazine.com/publication...

Attorney Kay Van Wey brings together three of the nation's leading experts on
physician accountability, hospital credentialing, and the National Practitioner
Data Bank to break down the structural failures that keep exposing patients to
harm, and to ask why the same failures are still happening a decade after the
world watched Dr. Death unfold.

*This is a panel discussion about systemic medical accountability and hospital
oversight, not about Dr. Kirby's case. None of the panelists have personal
knowledge of the specific events involving Dr. Kirby, and this panel makes no
claim or accusation of malpractice or impairment regarding any surgery.

WHAT YOU'LL UNDERSTAND BY THE END:

Patient safety: why the system fails to identify and limit impaired physicians
before patients are harmed.

What is the National Practitioner Data Bank? How the 29-day loophole in federal
reporting law lets a hospital suspend a physician without ever reporting them
to the NPDB.

How hospitals use legal technicalities to avoid mandatory reporting: asking a
physician to resign before an investigation opens, or ending an investigation
in exchange for a quiet resignation.

What financial incentives push hospitals toward silence instead of transparency?

What the code of silence among physicians looks like in practice, and why
surgeons who know something is wrong often say nothing.

What does a genuine hospital culture of safety look like, and how is it
different from the culture in too many institutions?

What is the No More Doctor Deaths initiative? And why the public outrage that
created it never produced lasting change.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction and Disclaimer
2:12 "Dr. Death Redux": The Panel's First Reactions to the D Magazine Story
6:20 The 29-Day Loophole: How Hospitals Avoid Reporting to the NPDB
12:05 What Dr. Kirby Did for Patients vs. What Was Done for Him
13:41 The Code of Silence: Why Doctors Don't Report Other Doctors
19:21 What a Real Hospital Culture of Safety Looks Like
23:02 Why Hospitals Fear Reporting, and Why the Law Isn't Enough
28:29 No More Doctor Deaths: Why Nothing Changed After Dr. Death
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PANELISTS
Dr. Martin Lazar: Board-Certified Neurosurgeon | Medical expert in the Texas
Medical Board proceedings and criminal prosecution of Dr. Christopher Duntsch
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinlla...

Anne Roberts: Attorney | Three decades in medical staff credentialing,
privileging, peer review, and hospital governance
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-robe...

Dr. Robert Oshel: Former Associate Director for Research and Disputes,
National Practitioner Data Bank | Patient safety advocate
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PART 2 IS COMING. The panel returns to discuss exactly what needs to change:
which loopholes to close, what real accountability for hospitals looks like,
and what patients can do. Subscribe so you don't miss it.

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advocate for families affected by medical malpractice, hospital negligence,
birth injuries, surgical errors, and preventable medical harm.

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Preventable medical errors affect patients at every stage of life. From the most vulnerable newborns to people in their final days. But the question of who gets harmed and the question of who can actually do anything about it have very different answers.

In this episode, Kay Van Wey delivers one of the most direct conversations this podcast has had about the legal reality facing victims of preventable medical errors: why the courthouse door is effectively slammed shut for 99% of them, what decades of tort reform have actually done to patient rights, and why most people had no idea their rights were being stripped away while they slept.

This episode is for the 1% who have a viable case and need to hear why it matters to pursue it. And it is for the 99% who called every lawyer in town and were turned away, because they deserve an explanation, and they deserve to be angry about it.

By watching this episode you will understand:

1. Why preventable medical errors affect every stage of life and why no patient population is protected
2. Why the courthouse is effectively closed to 99% of victims of preventable medical errors, and what that actually means in practice
3. How decades of tort reform have stacked the legal system in favor of healthcare providers and against patients
4. Why most lawyers won't take a medical malpractice case, and why that is not about laziness or greed
5. Why the 1% with viable cases should pursue litigation even when it feels wrong to do so
6. What the 99% who can't get into court should do instead, and why their anger is the most important force for change
7. Why medical malpractice lawsuits matter beyond money, and how they have changed hospital policies and saved lives

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction

0:39 Who Is Most Affected by Preventable Medical Errors

1:31 The Bigger Question: Who Can Actually Do Something About It

1:57 How Tort Reform Created a David vs. Goliath Legal System

3:33 Why Medical Malpractice Law Is Not Dead But the Courthouse Mostly Is

4:12 Why 99% of Victims Will Never Find a Lawyer

5:27 If You Are the 1%, Here Is Why You Should Pursue Your Case

7:08 If You Are the 99%, Here Is What to Do With Your Anger

8:44 Why Lawsuits Matter: How Litigation Actually Changes Healthcare

10:17 How to Find a Truly Qualified Medical Malpractice Attorney

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Have you or someone you love tried to find a medical malpractice attorney and been turned away? Tell us your story in the comments.

At Van Wey & Metzler Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, Kay Van Wey and her team advocate for families affected by medical malpractice, hospital negligence, birth injuries, surgical errors, preventable medical harm, and unsafe healthcare systems.

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Between 300,000 and 400,000 Americans die from preventable medical errors every year. That number has been climbing since the first major studies came out in the 1970s. And yet there is no mandatory reporting requirement for some of the most egregious errors that happen inside hospitals, including operating on the wrong body part, leaving a foreign object inside a patient, or setting a patient on fire in the operating room.

In this episode, Kay Van Wey sits down with her law partner Luke Metzler, a birth injury attorney who has taken depositions across the country and written a scholarly article for the University of North Texas Law Review titled Hospital Negligence and How to Avoid Being the Next Victim, for one of the most substantive conversations this podcast has had about what is actually going wrong inside hospitals, why the system keeps failing patients in the same ways over and over again, and what medical malpractice litigation actually does to make healthcare safer.

By watching this episode you will understand:

1. What the data actually shows about how dangerous hospitals are and why the real number is likely far higher than any study has captured
2. Why there is no mandatory reporting requirement for some of the most serious medical errors in the country
3. Why the aviation industry's approach to safety is the model healthcare refuses to follow
4. Why checklists and timeouts exist for wrong site surgery and why patients still get operated on in the wrong place anyway
5. The most common and preventable causes of birth injuries including HIE and cerebral palsy
6. How medical malpractice litigation drives real systemic change inside hospitals
7. Why the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology publicly stated its goal was to create literature to defend lawsuits and what that means for patients

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction

2:00 Why Almost Every Medical Error Is a System Failure, Not Just a Bad Doctor

5:00 Luke's Article: Hospital Negligence and How to Avoid Being the Next Victim

6:30 Are Hospitals Actually Dangerous? What Decades of Data Show

12:00 Why We Don't Know the True Number of Preventable Medical Deaths 

19:00 Why Hospitals Self-Regulate and Why That Is a Problem

24:00 The Science of Patient Safety and Why It Is Not Being Applied

29:00 Birth Injuries: The Most Common Preventable Causes of HIE and Cerebral Palsy

34:00 What Medical Malpractice Litigation Actually Does to Make Healthcare Safer

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Have you or someone you love been affected by a preventable medical error? Tell us your story in the comments.

At Van Wey & Metzler Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, Kay Van Wey and her team advocate for families affected by medical malpractice, hospital negligence, birth injuries, surgical errors, preventable medical harm, and unsafe healthcare systems.

 Van Wey & Metzler Instagram: @vanweymetzlerlaw Van Wey & Metzler LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vanweylaw/ Van Wey & Metzler Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanweymetzlerlaw Learn more about Van Wey & Metzler Law Firm: https://www.vanweylaw.com/ AdvoKAYte Podcast: https://www.vanweylaw.com/advokayte-podcasts/ AdvoKAYte Instagram: @advokaytepodcast AdvoKAYte Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/advokaytepodcast/

Everyone is talking about the Lindsay Clancy case. Most of the coverage is focused on the criminal trial. But underneath the headlines, there is a medical and legal story that has received almost no attention, and it changes how you understand everything that happened.

In this breaking news segment, Kalee Dionne Pair sits down with medical malpractice attorney Kay Van Wey to break down the civil lawsuit that is running parallel to the criminal case, what the medical malpractice claims actually allege, and what this case reveals about how psychiatric care is, and is not, held accountable in the United States.

By watching this segment you will understand:

1. The difference between the criminal case and the civil medical malpractice lawsuit, and why they are asking completely different questions
2. What the civil lawsuit actually alleges about Lindsay's psychiatric care and why her husband brought it
3. How Lindsay filed her own civil claims and why that is legally more straightforward than it sounds
4. What a jury will actually have to decide about whether the standard of psychiatric care was met
5. Why denying suicidal ideation is not a defense for clinicians who should have seen the full clinical picture
6. What damages could be recovered in Massachusetts versus what would be available in Texas, and why those numbers are very different
7. What Texas tort reform has done to close courthouse doors on cases exactly like this one

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction

1:45 Criminal Case vs. Civil Case and What Is the Difference

2:30 What the Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Actually Alleges

5:00 How Lindsay Filed Her Own Civil Claims and Why

8:00 How a Jury Decides Whether Psychiatric Care Was Negligent

11:00 Why Denying Suicidal Ideation Is Not Enough of a Defense

12:50 What Recovery Actually Looks Like in Massachusetts vs. Texas

18:00 What Texas Tort Reform Has Done to Patients Like This Family

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If this conversation has raised any questions about your own mental health or the care of someone you love, please pay attention to that. And if you believe a loved one's mental health was mismanaged with devastating consequences, that conversation starts here.

At Van Wey & Metzler Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, Kay Van Wey and her team advocate for families affected by medical malpractice, hospital negligence, birth injuries, surgical errors, preventable medical harm, and unsafe healthcare systems.

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If you have ever Googled a doctor before a procedure and felt like you were not getting the full picture, you were right. Hospitals track complication rates, blood loss averages, infection rates, and post-operative outcomes for every physician on staff. They know exactly who their safest surgeons are. That data is legally protected and you will never be allowed to see it.

In this episode, Kalee Dionne Pair puts Kay Van Wey back in the hot seat for a deeper dive on the most alarming moments from Episodes 10 and 11. Kay breaks down what hospitals actually know about your doctor, why the National Practitioner Data Bank exists but is off limits to patients, and what the Dr. Death case revealed about the secrecy that still puts patients at risk today.

By watching this episode you will understand:

1. What hospital data on surgeon outcomes actually looks like and why it is kept from patients and lawyers alike
2. What the National Practitioner Data Bank is and why patients cannot access it
3. Why nurses are often the most honest source of information about a doctor
4. Why your doctor's referral may not mean what you think it means
5. How the Dr. Death patients did their homework and were still actively misled because the right information was locked away

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction

1:45 The Data Hospitals Have on Every Surgeon That You Will Never See

6:00 Why Patients Cannot Access Their Doctor's Complication Rates

8:30 The National Practitioner Data Bank and Why It Is Off Limits

10:50 Why Nurses Are Your Best Source of Honest Information

12:00 Why Your Doctor's Referral May Not Mean What You Think

13:15 How Dr. Death's Patients Were Misled Despite Doing Their Homework 14:45 Why These Problems Existed Long Before Dr. Death and Still Do 
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Have you ever tried to research a doctor before a procedure and hit a wall? Tell us what you found, or didn't find, in the comments.

At Van Wey & Metzler Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, Kay Van Wey and her team advocate for families affected by medical malpractice, hospital negligence, birth injuries, surgical errors, preventable medical harm, and unsafe healthcare systems.

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If you are trying to figure out how to research your doctor before surgery, most people start with Google, but there is something more important you might be missing entirely. The system that trains and employs your doctor is under more pressure than it has ever been, and understanding that pressure may be the most important thing you can do before you ever sit down in that exam room.

In Part 2 of their conversation, Kay Van Wey sits back down with healthcare insiders Chad Erickson and Barry Howell, the founders of Texas Best Docs, for an honest conversation about physician burnout, private equity in medicine, and what happens to patient care when the business of healthcare puts doctors under impossible pressure.

Nearly 80% of physicians in America are now employed by hospitals, health systems, private equity firms, and even health insurance companies. Chad and Barry explain what that shift means for the doctors treating you, and why a burned-out, overworked physician is one of the most underreported patient safety risks in American healthcare today.

By watching this episode you will understand:

1. Why so many private practices are being bought by private equity and what that means for your care
2. How cuts in reimbursement rates are forcing doctors to see more patients with fewer resources
3. Why a physician employed by a health insurance company may have goals that conflict with your best interest
4. How the financial pressures on independent practices directly connect to patient safety outcomes
5. What reasonable transparency in healthcare could actually look like and why it matters for every patient

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction

2:00 Why Plaintiff Lawyers and Healthcare Insiders Are Actually on the Same Side

4:45 Why Nearly 80% of Doctors Are No Longer Independent

7:30 What Happens When Private Equity Meets Medicine

11:30 Why Your Doctor May No Longer Have Final Say Over Your Care

15:45 The Independent Physician Is Surrounded — What That Means for You

18:30 The Hidden Cost Disparity Inside Healthcare Nobody Talks About

22:50 Why Burned Out Doctors Are a Patient Safety Crisis Nobody Is Naming

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Have you ever felt rushed through a doctor's appointment or like your physician was stretched too thin? Tell us about it in the comments.

At Van Wey & Metzler Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, Kay Van Wey and her team advocate for families affected by medical malpractice, hospital negligence, birth injuries, surgical errors, preventable medical harm, and unsafe healthcare systems.

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Most patients research their doctor the same way they research a restaurant, they Google it, skim the reviews, and hope for the best.

But online reviews can't tell you if your doctor has been disciplined by the medical board. They can't tell you their complication rates, their readmission rates, or whether other physicians in your community are quietly steering patients away from them. And the data that could tell you all of that? Most of it is locked behind laws that prevent the public from ever seeing it.

In this episode of AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable, host Kay Van Wey sits down with Chad Erickson and Barry Howell two experienced healthcare administrators who have worked inside hospitals and large physician practice groups for an honest conversation about what patients can and cannot find out about their doctors, and what they built to start closing that gap.

Chad and Barry are the founders of Texas Best Docs, a platform designed to give patients and physicians access to factual, objective information about providers, starting with Texas Medical Board actions, without the noise of pay-to-play directories or anonymous reviews.

In this episode, they discuss:

1. Why Google reviews are one of the worst ways to evaluate a physician
2. What Texas Best Docs is, how it works, and how it's different from pay-to-play directories
3. What the Texas Medical Board actually tracks and what its limitations are
4. Why a clean record on the medical board does not necessarily mean a doctor is good
5. The data that hospitals collect on every physician and why patients can never see it
6. What the National Practitioner Data Bank is and why it is off limits to the public
7. How to use CMS hospital data to make more informed decisions about your care
8. The best advice two healthcare insiders have for patients choosing a doctor
9. DocWatch: how to get alerted when your doctor has a new Texas Medical Board action

One of the most striking moments in this conversation is Kay's description of the data that exists inside every hospital, infection rates, complication rates, return-to-OR rates, and the reality that patients will almost certainly never have access to it. As Kay puts it, doctors have a right to privacy, but patients have a right to know if the surgeon they are about to trust has a pattern of outcomes that other surgeons do not.

Kay also explores the uncomfortable truth that even people who work inside the healthcare system, administrators, practice executives, physicians themselves, struggle to get reliable information about the doctors they credential, hire, and refer patients to. The transparency problem is not just a patient problem. It is an industry-wide problem that nobody has fully solved.

But this episode is not about making patients afraid to see their doctors.

It is about building a healthcare system where:

1. Patients have access to real, objective information about their providers
2. Online directories reflect facts, not marketing budgets
3. Physicians are held accountable through data, not just reputation
4. Transparency is treated as a patient right, not a liability risk

Because you cannot make an informed decision about your care with information you are never allowed to see.

At Van Wey & Metzler Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, Kay Van Wey and her team advocate for families affected by:

1. Medical malpractice
2. Hospital negligence
3. Birth injuries
4. Surgical errors
5. Preventable medical harm
6. Unsafe healthcare systems

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Most patients assume that if a doctor has credentials on their wall, they are qualified to perform the procedure they are offering.

But what happens when those credentials are fake, misleading, or completely unrelated to the surgery being performed on you?

In this episode of AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable, host Kay Van Wey sits down with Dr. Bruce Hermann, a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon, for a candid conversation about fake board certifications, unregulated office-based surgery, the explosion of med spas, and why patients are often the last to know when something is wrong.

Dr. Hermann is a practicing plastic and reconstructive surgeon with over two decades of experience. He also hosts his own podcast, Nip Talk, where he educates patients about the world of aesthetics and plastic surgery. Together, Kay and Dr. Herman pull back the curtain on what patients need to know before they ever agree to a procedure.

In this episode, they discuss:

1. What board certification actually means and how to verify it
2. Why "triple board certified" is often a red flag, not a selling point
3. How to use the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) to protect yourself
4. The hidden dangers of office-based surgical suites with little to no oversight
5. Why some doctors practice procedures far outside their training, and how they get away with it
6. The explosion of med spas and what happens when the medical director is absent in name only
7. What really happens when something goes wrong in an office setting
8. The growing corporatization of medicine and what it means for patient safety
9. AI in healthcare, promise, risk, and who is actually looking out for the patient

One of the most eye-opening moments in this conversation is Dr. Herman's honest account of what "triple board certified" actually means in the cosmetic surgery world, and why it is one of the clearest warning signs that a provider may not be who they say they are.

Kay also explores the uncomfortable reality that patients are often not equipped to tell the difference between a legitimate board certification and a fake one, and that the burden of honesty falls entirely on the provider, not the patient. But this episode is not about scaring people away from necessary procedures.

It is about creating a healthcare environment where:

1. Patients can verify their doctor's credentials with confidence
2. Office-based procedures are properly regulated
3. Med spas are held accountable to real standards
4. Providers are honest about what they are and are not trained to do

Because patient safety should never depend on a patient knowing which boards are real and which ones are not.

At Van Wey & Metzler Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, Kay Van Wey and her team advocate for families affected by:

1. Medical malpractice
2. Hospital negligence
3. Birth injuries
4. Surgical errors
5. Preventable medical harm
6. Unsafe healthcare systems

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Most patients assume hospitals closely monitor doctors and quickly step in when patient safety is at risk.

But what really happens behind the scenes when concerns are raised about physician behavior, competency, professionalism, or patient harm?

In this episode of AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable, host Kay Van Wey sits down with physician leader and patient safety advocate Dr. Brijen Shah for an honest conversation about hospital governance, physician oversight, peer review, and the difficult balance between transparency, accountability, and protecting patients.

Dr. Shah is a practicing gastroenterologist, geriatrician, educator, and physician leader within the Mount Sinai Health System. Together, Kay and Dr. Shah pull back the curtain on how hospitals actually oversee doctors, and why those systems sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.

In this episode, they discuss:

1. How hospitals govern physicians
2. What hospital peer review committees actually do
3. Why some dangerous doctors stay in practice
4. The tension between hospital profits and patient safety
5. Physician professionalism and accountability
6. Why healthcare systems need transparency and trust
7. The growing fear of retaliation, lawsuits, and secrecy in medicine
8. Why patient safety depends on strong hospital culture

One of the most eye-opening moments in this conversation is the discussion about how hospitals balance protecting patients while also managing legal risk, physician shortages, financial pressures, and institutional reputation.

Kay also explores the uncomfortable reality that some healthcare systems may prioritize business concerns over accountability, especially when high-revenue physicians are involved. Dr. Shah candidly explains why those pressures are real and why hospital leadership and physician governance matter more than patients realize.

But this episode is not about attacking healthcare workers.

It is about creating healthcare systems where:

1. Doctors can speak up safely
2. Hospitals prioritize integrity
3. Mistakes are learned from
4. Patients are protected

Because accountability and patient safety should never depend on secrecy.

At Van Wey & Metzler Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, Kay Van Wey and her team advocate for families affected by:

1. Medical malpractice
2. Hospital negligence
3. Birth injuries
4. Surgical errors
5. Preventable medical harm
6. Unsafe healthcare systems

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What if most medical mistakes aren't caused by bad doctors or careless nurses, but by systems that were never designed to prevent human error in the first place?

In this episode of AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable, host Kay Van Wey sits down with Kalee Pair to break down one of the most important conversations of Season 2, her full interview with Dr. Matt Austin, a PhD-level patient safety expert and systems engineer who spent over a decade in the airline industry before bringing that same safety-first thinking to healthcare.

Kay distills the science of patient safety into what every patient needs to understand:

1. Why aviation is dramatically safer than hospitals, and what healthcare refuses to adopt from it
2. How the number of Americans dying from preventable medical mistakes is equivalent to three 747s crashing every single day
3. Why bad systems, not bad people, are responsible for the overwhelming majority of preventable harm
4. What the Swiss cheese model reveals about how catastrophic medical errors actually happen
5. Whether human error can truly be engineered out of healthcare, and what it would take to get there
6. Why good people who enter medicine for the right reasons sometimes get crushed by the system itself

This episode is short, accessible, and genuinely eye-opening. Whether you are a patient, a healthcare worker, or someone who has ever trusted a hospital with your life, this conversation is for you.

At Van Wey & Metzler Law Firm in Dallas, Texas, Kay Van Wey and her team represent families affected by preventable medical errors, hospital negligence, birth injuries, surgical errors, and healthcare system failures. Because accountability in healthcare is not about blame. It is about building a system that is actually worthy of our trust.

 
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