The Dr. Death case should have changed everything. It didn’t.

In Episode 9 of AdvoKAYte: Holding Healthcare Accountable, I’m joined by two veteran neurosurgeons and patient safety advocates, Dr. Robert Henderson and Dr. Martin Lazar, to talk honestly about why the same system failures that enabled Christopher Duntsch still exist today.

As members of the No More Dr. Deaths group, Dr. Henderson and Dr. Lazar explain how hospitals continue to protect dangerous doctors, often out of fear, finances, or convenience. They share what really happens when a physician causes harm and why reporting to the National Practitioner Data Bank is still routinely avoided.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why over half of U.S. hospitals have never reported a doctor

• How fear of lawsuits keeps dangerous physicians hidden

• Why hospitals let doctors “voluntarily resign” instead of reporting them

• How profit-driven systems put patients at risk

• Why no hospital has ever been punished for violating NPDB laws

• What has changed in residency training since Dr. Death, and what hasn’t

• Whether the medical “code of silence” is finally breaking

When asked to grade the system, Dr. Lazar gives it a simple answer: poorly.

If you want to understand why Dr. Death wasn’t a one-off and what must change to stop the next one, this conversation matters.

Listen to Episode 9:

https://www.vanweylaw.com/advokayte-podcasts/

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