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Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 63 points 1 year ago (17 children)

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.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [+] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the info!

    Honestly tho, it's pretty crazy they let dude roam around a hospital with 20lbs of chain around his neck. That's literally a deadly weapon.

    I don't care what story he gave, he should have been told to leave it in his vehicle.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    That would not cost billions. Not even close. It would certainly be far cheaper than the cost of repair.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Did you forget that thousands of hospitals exist just in the US? Or at least did before 2025.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not all of them have MRI machines, and regardless of its cheaper than repairing them.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Hundreds probably do though. I don't know. I've never heard of anything like this happening. I think it's probably exceedingly rare. I had an MRI and the number of times I heard and read the warnings about metal was exhausting. It feels almost impossible that someone could not know about that specific danger.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nah, let them stupids die. I don't want to risk non idiots lives for the chance of saving a moron.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I apologize if im completely misunderstanding, but what "non idiots" are at risk, in what circumstances? Shouldn't there always be a tech?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    No apology necessary.

    There are emergencies that could happen anywhere, including in an MRI room. Dealing with emergencies, ease of ingress and egress is paramount.

    The proposed solutions would hamper access to these rooms during emergencies, putting patients and techs in harms way (the non idiots), in the name of preventing a moron from giving themselves a Darwin award.

    I think it would be a net negative, ie. more people would die/get hurt trying to make an idiot proof enclosure.

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