Ep. 12: What Hospitals Know About Your Doctor And Why You'll Never See It | AdvoKAYte Season 2
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 a…
BONUS EPISODE: The Lindsay Clancy Case: What the Media Isn't Telling You | AdvoKAYte
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…
Ep. 13: How to Avoid Being the Next Victim of Hospital Negligence | AdvoKAYte Season 2
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 …
Why the Courthouse Door Is Closed to 99% of Medical Malpractice Victims | AdvoKAYte S2 Ep. 14
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…
Dr. Death Redux: Why the System Still Protects Dangerous Doctors
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 ofhis own, and raises a harder question about the system itself.
Read the D Magazine article, "Dr. Death Redux": https://www.dmagazine.com/public…
Why Doctors Miss Strokes in Young Patients | AdvoKAYte S2 Ep. 15
Younger patients are seven times more likely to have a stroke missed than older patients. Dizziness is the symptom most often mistaken for something harmless.
Researchers estimate that up to 200,000 Americans experience a diagnostic error each year, and that between 40,000 and 80,000 of them die as…
The Nurse Questioned the Order. Then the Surgeon Cursed Her Out. | AdvoKAYte S2 Ep. 16
Your nurse is at your bedside for 12 hours at a time. Your doctor rounds once a day. When your vital signs shift or your labs change, the nurse sees it first. What happens to you next depends on whether that nurse is free to speak up.
In too many hospitals, she isn't.
Kay Van Wey sits down with Mel…
"I Did the Right Thing and Got Fired" | Texas Safe Harbor Law for Nurses | AdvoKAYte S2 Ep. 17
Texas is one of two states in the country, along with New Mexico, with a law that protects nurses who are fired for invoking Safe Harbor. Most employment attorneys have never heard of it. Most nurses who need it cannot find anyone to take their case.
That is not because the law is weak. It is becau…
Why Nurses Are Afraid to Speak Up | Moral Injury and Texas Safe Harbor | AdvoKAYte S2 Ep. 18
In too many hospitals, nurses already know the answer before they ask the question. Nothing will change. And if anything does, it will be directed at them, not at the doctor.
There is a name for what that does to a person. Doctors and nurses call it moral injury: the grinding down of people who en…
$6 Billion a Year: How Healthcare Workers Expose Fraud | False Claims Act | AdvoKAYte Ep. 19 Part 1
Last year alone, the False Claims Act returned about six billion dollars to the U.S. Treasury. That money was stolen through healthcare fraud, and it is not abstract. It is Medicare. It is Medicaid. It is taxpayer money that was supposed to pay for sick people to get care. And in too many cases, pa…
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