Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
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Why wasn't the door to the room locked while the machine was running?
Tldr for safety
To actually answer your question instead of piling on, it's a hospital, not a prison. In case of emergencies, the door absolutely cannot ever be potentially locked, even while the machine is on.
With how easily something can go wrong in an MRI, they need quick access without the addition of special keya/badges to get inside or relying on people inside to hit some lock release.
In cases like this it makes perfect sense to have a lock because an idiot was outside and ignored all the warnings. A lock would have prevented everything that followed him entering.
Buuuuuuut unfortunately we can't cater the entire world to the biggest idiots, if only for the safety of the less idiotic who might have a heart attack in the MRI and need to be quickly pulled out, or a piece of metal that snuck into their food and is now ripping out their insides.
In most situations where an emergency happens inside, quick reactions save lives, and locks slow reactions down to the slowest mechanism, which might be "I don't have the right RFID badge, go find another person who has one or the guy inside dies"
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You could put an airlock like metal detector door that only opens the second door, if the first door is closed and there's nothing magnetic inside. People could still go in quickly in emergencies, but nothing that makes it worse can enter.
You could spend billions to implement crazy solutions for every possible scenario.
Or you could just tell the guy not to go in there.
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True winner of a Darwin award
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how did it not throw up red flags all around letting this guy wear it around that machine.
He wasn't allowed in the room.
His wife panicked in the MRI, he charged into the room he was told not to go Into.
Imagine the scene from her POV. She's claustrophobic and having a meltdown because of all the hums and bangs and then her husband comes running in only to get pulled into the machine she is already stuck inside of. He's screaming and can't get pulled free while she is being pushed even harder into the machine she so desparately wants free from - by her husband who is quickly suffocating to death
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As much as the machines cost, something like that wired up with a metal detector so that if the machine is on and there's metal in the airlock it will never open would actually be a good solution....
But it would take a society that values human life and absence of suffering over money. Because like someone else pointed out, the hospital ain't the one paying to fix the machine.
Maybe Canada would be interested?
This basically never happens. You want to spend billions guarding against humanity stupidity? Good luck with that.
But it would take a society that values human life and absence of suffering over money.
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It wasnt a necklace...
It was a literal metal chain, like steel. Not a gold cuban link chain or something with a huge medallion a rapper would wear.
Apparently this idiot just lived everyday with a 20lb length of chain around his neck for "weight training". The article mentions it was "a topic of discussion" on a prior visit, so it wasn't a one time thing.
The type of person to do that, is 100% the type of guy to run into an active MRI like he could do anything. Theres no logical thinking going on, and an outright refusal to listen to qualified medical advice. Like, they make weighted vests, at least do that instead of putting all that weight on your neck.
Yeah, there was a guy in my town who would run around with one of these around his neck. Similar type of idiot. He would actually run by the strength training gym and gloat to us that we were wasting our time lol, insisting that all we had to do was run around with a big chain.
Hearing about this news story now I wonder if some influencer somewhere started a trend. People love feeling like they found “the secret”
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Yeah, there was a guy in my town who would run around with one of these around his neck. Similar type of idiot. He would actually run by the strength training gym and gloat to us that we were wasting our time lol, insisting that all we had to do was run around with a big chain.
Hearing about this news story now I wonder if some influencer somewhere started a trend. People love feeling like they found “the secret”
It has all the Hallmarks...
Starts with something based in science, but never goes past surface logic and ignores lots of existing and safe options for the most visible and attention grabbing method despite the serious medical flaws from this method.
Even if you stay away from 1.5 tons magnets, that's going to fuck your posture up before it translates to muscular gains.
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Easy solution : have a pure gold necklace, since gold isn't magnetic
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Geez, imagine how much it would cost to repair.
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Imagine the scene from her POV. She's claustrophobic and having a meltdown because of all the hums and bangs and then her husband comes running in only to get pulled into the machine she is already stuck inside of. He's screaming and can't get pulled free while she is being pushed even harder into the machine she so desparately wants free from - by her husband who is quickly suffocating to death
So tragic, jesus. Also, it was obviously stupid, but in his defense he probably went into fight or flight and wasn't thinking. Unfortunately he paid for it with his life.
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You could spend billions to implement crazy solutions for every possible scenario.
Or you could just tell the guy not to go in there.
wrote last edited by [email protected]That would not cost billions. Not even close. It would certainly be far cheaper than the cost of repair.
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that’s terrible
i assume he must have thought because the machine was off it wasn’t an issue
and died of a heart attack as well damn
How did he actually die? Like did the chain decapitate him?
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That's nothing. Remember the guy who brought his gun with him and the machine helped him shoot himself?
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Easy solution : have a pure gold necklace, since gold isn't magnetic
9kg of gold is worth close to $1mill. Mr T is baller enough to do that
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Why wasn't the door to the room locked while the machine was running?
while the machine was running?
In an MRI, the magnet is always on, even when the machine isn't running. You can't ever go near it with metal on.
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Imagine the scene from her POV. She's claustrophobic and having a meltdown because of all the hums and bangs and then her husband comes running in only to get pulled into the machine she is already stuck inside of. He's screaming and can't get pulled free while she is being pushed even harder into the machine she so desparately wants free from - by her husband who is quickly suffocating to death
wrote last edited by [email protected]There probably wasn’t any screaming. MRIs exert thousands of pounds of force at close range. You can imagine what thousands of pounds of metal would do to a neck.
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Okay 3 things.
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9 kg is 2.2 lb, which is ridiculous, and can't be good on your neck. The article says 20 lb, so one of those is wrong. I'm gonna guess the metric one is writing since in America we measure everything in Freedom Units
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Did the "no metal" warning sign go missing or was he just illiterate?
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That must have been a horrible mess to have to clean up.
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Okay 3 things.
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9 kg is 2.2 lb, which is ridiculous, and can't be good on your neck. The article says 20 lb, so one of those is wrong. I'm gonna guess the metric one is writing since in America we measure everything in Freedom Units
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Did the "no metal" warning sign go missing or was he just illiterate?
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That must have been a horrible mess to have to clean up.
9kg is almost 20lbs, which is even more ridiculous
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There probably wasn’t any screaming. MRIs exert thousands of pounds of force at close range. You can imagine what thousands of pounds of metal would do to a neck.
thousands of pounds of force at close range
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Okay 3 things.
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9 kg is 2.2 lb, which is ridiculous, and can't be good on your neck. The article says 20 lb, so one of those is wrong. I'm gonna guess the metric one is writing since in America we measure everything in Freedom Units
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Did the "no metal" warning sign go missing or was he just illiterate?
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That must have been a horrible mess to have to clean up.
Dude, 1 kg = 2.2. Multiply that by nine and you get 19.8 lbs.
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