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We asked California for the state’s investigation report into an MRI accident.

They sent us the federal CMS report.

So we asked again.

We got the CMS report.

We tried again.

The CMS report. Again.

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🎧 Hear what we found in The Invisible Force — “Who Regulates MRI Safety?”

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Not simply no MRI enforcement action that we could identify. The hospital itself wasn't where we expected it to be in the state's published enforcement data.
So we kept digging.

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We searched California’s public hospital-enforcement records for the consequences of a serious MRI accident.

We checked. Nothing.

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🎧 The Invisible Force — Season 3, Episode 5: “Who Regulates MRI Safety?”

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MRI is used millions of times every year in hospitals and imaging centers.

But here’s a surprisingly difficult question:
Who actually regulates MRI safety?

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