Invisible Force

CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk
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Swept under the rug… Most MRI accidents are hushed-up and swept under the rug. The ‘safe’ imaging option isn’t supposed to hurt healthcare workers, or patients, or family members, but when things go badly, they can go very badly. Hosts John Posh and Tobias Gilk pull on the threads to reveal the hidden stories of “freak” MRI accidents.

  1. 1d ago

    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 sneak-peek at our upcoming episodes. The New York State Department of Health gaslit our hosts, pretending there was an investigation into the fatal MRI accident when there wasn’t one. When pressed on these details, they froze us out, so we resorted to a Freedom of Information Law request. After almost six-months, they finally responded to our request on what the state is doing to provide some minimum level of MRI safety to New Yorkers… Despite reports of ‘following the events,’ and ‘ongoing investigations,’ and ‘attention to safety,’ we can’t say what – if anything – the NYSDOH is doing to help make MRI scans safer for New Yorkers. We can say, however, that Invisible Force will be doing new series on the MRI accident at Westchester Medical Center in which Michael Colombini died, as well as one on an accident at Redwood City Hospital where a nurse was trapped against an MRI scanner by an ICU bed. Created and written by: CAIREreporting.org and Tobias “Toby” Gilk Hosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John Posh Music & Art: Reggie Battle Production: Multitude Website: InvisibleForcePodcast.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    27 min

  2. Jun 2

    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 seriously? In this episode our hosts change the focus from the MRI death of Mr. Keith McAllister and Nassau Open MRI to each of us, and what we, as MRI patients, can do to help protect ourselves or our loved ones, helping to assure MRI safety at the hospital or imaging center where we seek care. Are the signs from MRI state licensure, or MRI accreditation, that are good indicators for us to find safe MRI providers? Should we be getting our MRIs at hospitals instead of outpatient imaging centers? Should we only be going to MRI providers who have MRI safety officers (MRSO) on staff? Created and written by: CAIREreporting.org and Tobias “Toby” Gilk Hosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John Posh Music & Art: Reggie Battle Production: Multitude Website: InvisibleForcePodcast.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    33 min

  3. May 19

    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 and Tobias Gilk, put on their pretend lawyer or MRI expert witness hats and discuss what legal duties or liability might be shouldered by Nassau Open MRI, the radiologist, and the MRI technologist. The hosts find that all three had duties to MRI safety that appear to not have been met, creating potential civil liability. The host pair also look into New York criminal law, identifying whether there’s sufficient information to consider charging the three with criminally negligent homicide for the MRI death of Mr. Keith McAllister. Created and written by: CAIREreporting.org and Tobias “Toby” Gilk Hosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John Posh Music & Art: Reggie Battle Production: Multitude Website: InvisibleForcePodcast.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    41 min

  4. May 5

    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 the investigations of the past several months, with many of the original holes filled in. Where the original telling of the story of this MRI death was based on news reports, the investigations of our hosts, John Posh and Tobias Gilk, has been able to change what we understand to be the truth. In this episode, they ‘take it from the top’ with a more comprehensive view of what happened at Nassau Open MRI in New York. While there are still gaps in what is known about this deadly MRI accident, this episode gives us the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of what happened that resulted in the death of Mr. Keith McAllister. Created and written by: CAIREreporting.org and Tobias “Toby” Gilk Hosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John Posh Performances: Mischa Stanton Music & Art: Reggie Battle Production: Multitude Website: InvisibleForcePodcast.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    35 min

  5. Apr 21

    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 of theirs interrupted one of Toby’s talks to ‘out’ themselves! Here we learn about the 2025 ARMRIT meeting in which the MRI technologist from Nassau Open MRI stood up in the middle of a crowd and ‘doxxed’ himself to a few hundred colleagues. But not only did he stand up in the room, but he also had a long sit-down conversation about the fatal MRI accident, MRI safety practices, and the quench button that purportedly malfunctioned. It was from this sit-down conversation that many new revelations about this fatal MRI accident emerged. Maybe the Nassau Open MRI radiologist didn’t know MRI safety? Maybe the tech pushed a button that wasn’t the quench button? Maybe much of what we thought we knew about this deadly MRI accident was just spin, and the facts were different… Created and written by: CAIREreporting.org and Tobias “Toby” Gilk Hosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John Posh Performances: Mischa Stanton Music & Art: Reggie Battle Production: Multitude Website: InvisibleForcePodcast.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    33 min

  6. Apr 7

    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 liabilities they might face. In MRI safety, the quench button is the last resort when accidents happen and someone is pinned against the MRI scanner. It is rare, but not unheard of, that this MRI emergency button would fail. So if the Nassau Open MRI quench button did malfunction, who made it? Who serviced this emergency button? Do they have a contributing role in the fatal MRI accident that killed Keith McAllister? While the lawsuit isn’t yet filed for this deadly MRI, this episode investigates the claim of the MRI quench button failure, and works to identify what parties might have legal responsibility if it didn’t work as intended. Created and written by: CAIREreporting.org and Tobias “Toby” Gilk Hosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John Posh Performances: Mischa Stanton Music & Art: Reggie Battle Production: Multitude Website: InvisibleForcePodcast.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    32 min

  7. Mar 24

    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 Department’s homicide investigation, and its referral to the District Attorney's office. As this deadly MRI accident, described in media as a ‘freak accident,’ was slipping out of news coverage, the McAllister family was getting their legal team in place for the impending lawsuit against Nassau Open MRI. They started with Smith Lauterborn and Cheung, and then added the famous civil rights firm of Ben Crump to their legal team for the MRI death of Keith McAllister. Even with all the lawyers, there was still no lawsuit over the fatal MRI accident… at least not yet. And the Nassau County DA’s Office was being very tight-lipped about whether they were contemplating criminal charges in relation to this MRI death. Created and written by: CAIREreporting.org and Tobias “Toby” Gilk Hosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John Posh Music & Art: Reggie Battle Production: Multitude Website: InvisibleForcePodcast.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    31 min

  8. Mar 10

    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* had MRI safety rules… right? In this episode we take close looks at the MRI safety provisions and requirements of the different organizations, from the FDA and CMS, to national accreditation organizations like Joint Commission, to the State of New York, all the way down to the municipal requirements of Westbury, NY, and the staff at Nassau Open MRI. What we’ll discover is that when it comes to MRI safety minimum rules, there effectively aren’t any. MRI is, from a patient safety standpoint, the ‘wild west’ with almost nothing assuring the safety of MRI patients or technologists. Created and written by: CAIREreporting.org and Tobias “Toby” Gilk Hosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John Posh Music & Art: Reggie Battle Production: Multitude Website: InvisibleForcePodcast.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    36 min
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Swept under the rug… Most MRI accidents are hushed-up and swept under the rug. The ‘safe’ imaging option isn’t supposed to hurt healthcare workers, or patients, or family members, but when things go badly, they can go very badly. Hosts John Posh and Tobias Gilk pull on the threads to reveal the hidden stories of “freak” MRI accidents.

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  • Creator
    CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk
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    Invisible Force

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