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S3E1 – Crushed by the Magnet: The Redwood City MRI Accident That Nearly Killed a Nurse
Description:A botched patient transfer. A nurse new to the hospital. An MRI technologist trying to recover a schedule already thrown into chaos. Then, in less than a second, a 500-pound ICU bed became a missile! In the Season Three premiere of The Invisible Force Podcast, we investigate the 2023 MRI accident at Redwood… Listen ⇢
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S2E3 – MRI Safety Week Special: The Michael Colombini Legacy—and Why MRI Safety Still Isn’t Required
Description:Twenty-five years ago, the death of six-year-old Michael Colombini in a tragic MRI accident shocked the radiology world and forever changed how healthcare professionals think about MRI safety. The accident inspired the American College of Radiology’s first MRI safety guidance, launched the modern MRI safety movement, and transformed best practices… Listen ⇢
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S2E2 – From Surgery, to Disaster, to Lawsuit: The MRI Accident That Exposed Flaws in Radiology and Launched a Million-Dollar Medical Malpractice Suit
A six-year-old boy survives brain tumor surgery and is preparing to go home. Then a routine MRI turns into one of the most infamous accidents in medical history. In this episode of the Invisible Force podcast, we continue our investigation into the mystery of the 2001 MRI accident that claimed… Listen ⇢
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S2E1 – The Original Fatal MRI Accident
The O.G. fatal MRI accident – that reshaped MRI safety best practices around the world – happened in 2001 at Westchester Medical Center in New York. This second series from Invisible Force takes you back to that accident, recreating the accident that wound up killing six-year-old Michael Colombini. While many… Listen ⇢
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S1E12 – Au Revoir
In July, 2025, Keith McAllister died in an MRI accident at Nassau Open MRI that was both anticipatable and preventable. What has the State of New York done in the intervening year to make MRI safer in their state? This episode tries to answer that question, and gives you a… Listen ⇢
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S1E11 – Protect Yourself
All of these agencies and organizations promise to ensure quality & safety of medical care… do they actually do this for MRI safety? And if they don’t, what can we do to help make sure that the people we love are getting MRI exams at places that take our safety… Listen ⇢
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S1E10 – MRI Safety Expert Witnesses
OK, it was a horrible MRI accident, but does that mean that there’s no accountability? In this episode our hosts break down the errors they’ve seen, as well as offering their takes on what they believe both civil and criminal liabilities might be. In this episode our hosts, John Posh… Listen ⇢
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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 out on Long Island, NY, formally closed up shop. Earlier 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… 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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Season 1 Underwriter
We’re grateful to have CAIREreporting.org as the underwriter.
CAIRE stands for Comprehensive Adverse Incident Reporting & Evaluation, and is an independent accident / incident / near-miss evaluating service specializing in MRI events. With both public reporting and private-enterprise based systems, there’s a CAIRE solution for everyone.