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Man dies after being pulled into MRI machine while wearing metal chain: Police (abcnews.go.com)

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A 61-year-old man who suffered critical injuries after being pulled into an MRI machine while wearing a metal chain has died, police said Friday.

The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon at a medical building in Westbury, New York, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

Officers responded to Nassau Open MRI following a 911 call and were informed that the man "entered an unauthorized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room while the scan was in progress," the police department said in a statement.

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[–] rowinxavier@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, I think the sentence structure is not really clear and while reality tries very hard to constrain humans we are creative and make chaos wherever we go. Could it have been a backroom MRI? I mean, I should be able to say absolutely not, definitely not, and yet, here we are. The modern American healthcare system is so scam and grift filled that the idea of someone taking an MRI, maybe an old outdated one, and then offering services without proper training and oversight so they can undercut and make a profit is not outlandish. It should be so obvious this was bad wording. We live in the worst timeline.