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S1E9 – Once more… From the beginning.
After months of wild-goose chases, obfuscation, and gaslighting, our hosts are feeling more confident in the details of our fatal MRI accident story that they’ve been able to dig up. This episode features a retelling of the events of the death of Keith McAllister at Nassau Open MRI, informed by… Listen ⇢
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S1E8 – Nassau Open MRI
In October of 2025, Nassau Open MRI formally closed up shop. They had deactivated their website, now they were officially closing their doors. They also weren’t talking to us. We had pretty much given up hope of getting anything from them until a remarkable employee of theirs interrupted one of… Listen ⇢
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S1E7 – Supporting Cast of Litigants
After Mr. McAllister got drawn into the MRI scanner, the situation went from ‘bad’ to ‘worse’ when the quench button purportedly failed to turn off the MRI’s magnetic field. This episode delves into the quench button and its function… who made it… who installed it… who maintained it… and what… Listen ⇢
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S1E6 – McAllister Estate
This episode focuses-in on the accounts of the actions of Mr. Keith McAllister, as well as the actions of family in the immediate aftermath of the fatal MRI accident that took Mr. McAllister’s life. This includes the family hiring two law firms, and the results of the Nassau County Police… Listen ⇢
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S1E5 – MRI Safety Regulation
As the Long Island neighbors said, “that should never happen,” and, “someone should be responsible.” So who had responsibilities to make sure that Nassau Open MRI was being run safely, and protecting the public from fatal MRI accidents? Between the feds, the State of New York, and Nassau County, somebody… Listen ⇢
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S1E4 – “He went limp in my arms!”
Episode 4 picks the story up from Mr. McAllister having been whisked off to the nearby hospital. In this episode, the day after the accident stakes are raised, dramatically, as he is declared dead from multiple heart attacks. But how did he die of a heart attack when they said… Listen ⇢
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S1E3 – Third Party Service
The man is trapped in the MRI scanner, with the chain around his neck, steadily being choked to death by this steel constrictor, and the last-resort tool to get him free doesn’t work. In order to get him free, it appears that they’re going to have to come up with… Listen ⇢
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S1E2 – Emergency Services Dispatch
In this episode, we pick up the story from where Mr. Keith McAllister was ‘sucked’ in the MRI scanner by the 20-pound chain around his neck. Why did it happen like it did? How do we evaluate what was in the online comments about this in the immediate aftermath? What… Listen ⇢
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S1E1 – The 9-1-1 Call
The inaugural episode of our podcast. Season one is dedicated specifically to exploring a fatal MRI accident that occurred on Long Island, New York, in the summer of 2025. Episode one is the start of the original story that you likely heard about on the news… Show Notes:Practical fMRI YouTube… Listen ⇢
Meet the podcast hosts, John Posh & Tobias Gilk.
With over 60-years of MRI & MRI safety between them (boy, that makes them sound old), John Posh and Tobias “Toby” Gilk have the history, connections, and perspective to bring MRI incident investigations to you in an understandable way.
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