S3E1 - Crushed by the Magnet: The Redwood City MRI Accident That Nearly Killed a Nurse

Podcast: Invisible Force: MRI Accident Investigations · CAIREreporting.org & Tobias Gilk

Opublikowano: 2026-08-11

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 City Hospital in California—an incident that left a nurse critically injured after a motorized ICU bed was pulled by an invisible force into an MRI scanner. Through public records, government investigations, hospital policies, and firsthand sources, we reconstruct the chain of ev...