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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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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’m just thinking about the poor woman. She’s forever going to be haunted with the knowledge that she was the one who called him into the room, and thus led to his death. His decision to come in wasn’t thought out, but that probably won’t relieve her feelings of guilt for having called him in. Such a tragic story.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    Uh she was in the room likely still on the bed laying down considering the story given. So like she'll have some rowdy memories of dude getting mushed into a machine a speed then slowly suffocate if they weren't lucky enough to hit their head really really fucking hard.

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

    She's not going to have one whit of self awareness. I may be going out on a limb here, but it doesn't sound like he was exactly the sharpest bulb in the ocean, and her reported cry to "turn off" the MRI (despite the repeated screenings you get prior to an MRI, warnimg patients about metal) indicate she isn't either. She's 100% gonna blame the provider and sue, adding to the rising cost of healthcare.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Aren't you just a shining beacon of logical, data-driven level-headedness. The fuck is she supposed to do, mentally recite each sign she saw on her way in as her spouse is being crushed before to determine if her request is feasible? Crawl out of the MRI, past her dying partner, and go read the manual to see if the MRI has an emergency stop capability before asking the technicians to intervene?

    I wish you the best in your future human interactions. I hope very few of them are life-threatening because clearly, you'll be of no help if you deem the situation avoidable or deem help unlikely to be successful.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    This is a really unempathetic response. I know shit’s tough right now and there are a lot of fools out there, but I beg you to at least try to give the benefit of the doubt and try to think through why people might do the things they do, especially when it’s someone enduring a personal tragedy that’s being publicly scrutinized. Think about the poor old woman who had hot coffee spilled on her crotch at a drive through and endured agonizing disfiguring burns - McDonald’s ran a campaign to paint her as a scammer and opportunist when she had done nothing wrong at all.

    Most people don’t intentionally endanger themselves or their loved ones and they are usually very deferential to authority, especially in medical settings. There’s nothing to indicate this was any more than a miscommunication involving a heavily blinged-out guy who did nothing wrong. The MRI folks didn’t think to brief him because he wasn’t in the danger zone. His wife called for help. Maybe a very observant doctor could have noticed the guy’s jewelry and gave him a warning. Maybe the wife could have recalled that her husband was wearing metal before calling for him. Maybe the doctors could have better screening procedures for people in the waiting area, or better procedures to control access to the MRI room. I can’t say based on the available information that anyone lacks self awareness or did anything obviously wrong here. Sometimes a lot of coincidences line up to make something terrible happen.

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