Invisible Force

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” GilkHosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John PoshMusic & Art: Reggie BattleProduction: MultitudeWebsite: InvisibleForcePodcast.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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” GilkHosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John PoshMusic & Art: Reggie BattleProduction: MultitudeWebsite: InvisibleForcePodcast.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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” GilkHosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John PoshPerformances: Mischa StantonMusic & Art: Reggie BattleProduction: MultitudeWebsite: InvisibleForcePodcast.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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” GilkHosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John PoshMusic & Art: Reggie BattleProduction: MultitudeWebsite: InvisibleForcePodcast.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Finally! After an hour of trying to extract him from being trapped in the MRI, they’re able to get him out and rush him to the hospital. In the next 24-hours, however, the stakes of this accident are going to be raised, significantly. In this episode of the Invisible Force we’ll learn about the day following the accident, setting the stage for the next part of this story.Everyone at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury or Long Island, NY, may have been breathing a sigh of relief that they’d finally removed the man who was being choked by a steel chain in their MRI scanner, but the MRI accident victim, Mr. Keith McAllister, was fighting for his life at the University Hospital.The MRI safety community was abuzz, and rumors about this MRI accident were flying. Sadly, it was only the next day when we learned that he died as a result of the horrific fatal MRI accident with the chain around his neck.Created and written by: CAIREreporting.org and Tobias “Toby” GilkHosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John PoshMusic & Art: Reggie BattleProduction: MultitudeWebsite: InvisibleForcePodcast.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

No number of first-responders could have pulled him out of the MRI scanner with that steel chain wrapped around his neck. While Mr. McAllister was being choked, why did it take so long to get him out? And why didn’t they just turn the MRI off? The Invisible Force podcast brings you along as we all discover together.According to information from the family, Mr. Keith McAllister was inside the MRI scanner at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, NY, for nearly an hour, with the chain pressing against his throat. Police, fire department, and paramedics all rushed to the scene, but they couldn’t get him out of the MRI scanner. Throughout this horrible MRI accident, they were helpless to do more than watch.The MRI safety measure that should have helped by turning of the magnetic field in an emergency, the MRI quench button, appeared to malfunction. Without it, there was no good option for how to rescue this man who was dying in front of them. Without that button, they were watching a quick rescue turn into a fatal MRI accident.Created and written by: CAIREreporting.org and Tobias “Toby” GilkHosted by: Tobias “Toby” Gilk and John PoshPerformances: Gwen Langland, Jake Mastrangelo, Julia SchifiniMusic & Art: Reggie BattleProduction: MultitudeWebsite: InvisibleForcePodcast.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In July 2025, a man accompanied his wife for her MRI exam. How did he wind up dead?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.