{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable","title":"Ep. 5: The System That Protects Hospitals Instead of Patients | AdvoKAYte Season 2","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1995,"description":"What really happens when a hospital puts its bottom line ahead of patient safety?\nIn Episode 5 of AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable, host Kay Van Wey sits down with her law partner Luke Metzler, a nationally recognized birth injury and medical malpractice attorney, for a candid, eye-opening conversation about hospital liability, system failures, and why the same preventable medical mistakes keep happening year after year.\nThis episode goes beyond individual negligence and exposes the institutional decisions driving preventable harm:How hospitals fail patients through system failures, not just individual mistakesWhy greed and bureaucracy block meaningful changeThe dangerous reality of unsafe nurse staffing levelsHow the \"normalization of deviance\" leads to catastrophic outcomesWhy nurses are the front line of patient safety, and what happens when they are silencedWhy filing a medical malpractice lawsuit can save lives beyond your ownLuke explains why almost every hospital negligence case is a system failure case, rooted in decisions made days, weeks, months, and years before anything goes wrong. From CEOs making \"financial decisions\" to eliminate overnight anesthesia at billion-dollar health systems, to nurses being forced to choose which critically ill patient to save when staffing runs out, this conversation is not theoretical. It is what Kay and Luke see in their cases every single day.\nKay and Luke also address the question that weighs on nearly every client they represent: I'm not the type to sue anybody. Should I really do this?\n\nTheir answer, grounded in decades of real cases and real change, makes the argument that accountability is not just about justice for one family. It is how the healthcare system gets better for everyone.\nThis episode is for:Patients and families who have experienced hospital negligenceNurses and doctors frustrated by the systems they work withinHealthcare leaders who want to understand where institutional liability...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ACUAWAuskVZB96h477ijBkGBeQ9EEPkCx3DKXf9k02I/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZTc2/ZDE3MDBjM2IwMDhm/M2YwOTc0Mjk2OTZk/MDc3My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}