Medical Board Failures: How Michael McKee Got Licensed While Evading Malpractice
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Today we're looking beyond the alleged double homicide of Monique and Spencer Tepe to ask a question that affects every patient in America: How did the man charged with their murders get licensed to practice medicine in the first place?
Michael McKee, a vascular surgeon, allegedly killed his ex-wife and her husband in Columbus, Ohio on December 30, 2025. He was arrested eleven days later at a Chick-fil-A blocks from the Illinois hospital where he was still employed. But the red flags existed long before the murders.
A Nevada malpractice attorney spent two years trying to serve McKee with papers. The addresses provided by McKee's surgical group didn't exist. His Nevada license expired in June 2025 while the lawsuit was still pending. Yet Illinois granted him a medical license in 2024 and OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center credentialed him to operate on patients.
The system designed to catch doctors like McKee - the National Practitioner Data Bank - only tracks paid claims, not pending lawsuits. Many state boards don't even query it. A major investigation found over 500 doctors disciplined in one state practicing elsewhere with clean records.
In education they call it "passing the trash" and there's federal law against it. In medicine? There's nothing. The AMA has fought to keep the NPDB closed to the public. And patients have no way to know if their surgeon has a troubled history in another state.
Today we examine the systemic failures - and ask how many other doctors like McKee are still out there.
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| 0:00.0 | is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:02.7 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.4 | There's a lot of questions in this case, |
| 0:10.0 | the case against Michael McKee for the death of Spencer and Monique Tapie. |
| 0:20.6 | And with so many cases that we cover here, |
| 0:25.0 | you end up discovering other aspects of the accused life |
| 0:32.3 | that raise a lot of questions. |
| 0:36.6 | They raise a lot of questions not only about what they're doing, |
| 0:40.1 | but what they're allowed to do or were allowed to do |
| 0:43.1 | leading up to said tragedy, allegedly. |
| 0:48.5 | We saw it in the Devil's Den case that we covered last year here, |
| 0:53.7 | where we broke a lot of that information |
| 0:55.2 | on this program about the school system, about the education system and passing the trash. |
| 1:03.8 | If you're unfamiliar with that, that was teachers. |
| 1:06.7 | You have not good records, disciplinary records at one school in one district or complaints in one school and one district that never get quite fully addressed or litigated. |
| 1:22.9 | And it's just kind of like, okay, you're going to move on. |
| 1:26.2 | We're going to move on. |
| 1:27.4 | Everybody's happy over here. We're not going to move on, we're going to move on, everybody's |
| 1:27.9 | happy over here, we're not going to press charges, we're just going to get rid of this person, |
| 1:31.9 | and then they go get a job somewhere else in another district that knows nothing about what happened |
| 1:36.4 | prior, and there's no way to really trace it. Well, surprise, surprise, the same sort of thing |
| 1:40.8 | can happen in medicine, too. And we might be on the edge of something here. |
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