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[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 140 points 1 week ago

I... want to see that 9 kg necklace. I mean, sounds like it's just a big-ass chain, but if so, how did it not throw up red flags all around letting this guy wear it around that machine.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 98 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 1 week ago

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

[-] albbi@piefed.ca 41 points 1 week ago

It was a knee MRI. She wasn't stuck inside it, she just wanted her husband to help get her off of the table instead of just the technician.

Still a horrible scene though, but not quite as horrific as your first imagining.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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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[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

While you wrote an interesting narrative, if you read the article the story is nothing like this, and even from her point of view would have been nothing like this.

She had asked the nurse to call her husband to help her up from the table. She called out his name and he ran in while the machine was still going.

He was pulled into the machine and was freed eventually but suffered multiple heart attacks after being pulled off the machine. The heart attacks are what killed him in the end in a hospital bed far from the MRI machine. He definitely did not suffocate.

[-] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

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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[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 126 points 1 week ago
[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 week ago

Easy solution : have a pure gold necklace, since gold isn't magnetic

[-] albbi@piefed.ca 41 points 1 week ago

18kt gold is an alloy with 75% gold and other metals that may be magnetic. I wouldn't trust a gold chain around my neck with an MRI.

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[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

9kg of gold is worth close to $1mill. Mr T is baller enough to do that

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Apparently the chains started when he was a bouncer. Sometimes people would lose them, while getting kicked out. He would wear them, so that had to come and ask him politely for them. His collection built when they were either too scared, or too egotistical to ask for them back.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

IIRC Mr T stopped wearing his gold chains because he came to feel that they were tone deaf.

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[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 19 points 1 week ago

I believe it can still get hot

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[-] Baguette 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did no one else read the story? I read it and it sounds moreso the clinic's fault

The necklace he was wearing was a steel weighted exercise band, not a normal necklace. He's not flexing his wealth or anything

His wife told News 12 Long Island in a recorded interview that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee when she asked the technician to get her husband to help her get off the table. She said she called out to him.

Seems like the technician was told by the wife to bring her husband in to help her up. The technician/clinic made a mistake by letting in the husband, who didn't seem properly warned about MRIs no metal policy. The technician also somehow didn't catch the giant "necklace" he'd be wearing.

The "he wasn't supposed to be there" seems like a coverup for their mistake, since how else would he have known to go in? Someone must've told him to walk into the room, it's not like he could hear through the door.

Edit: 100% the technicians fault, the technician saw it. It even had a metal padlock.

They’d even discussed his training and the hard-to-miss chain with the MRI technician during their previous appointments, Jones-McAllister said.
“That was not the first time that guy has seen that chain” on her husband, she said. “They had a conversation about it before.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/long-island-man-killed-in-freak-mri-accident-was-wearing-20-pound-chain-necklace-with-padlock/ar-AA1IXop6

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Thank the gods for you. I was reading these comments thinking I was insane.

[-] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I'm not saying it's the husband's fault, but I don't think it's 100% on the technician either.

I read it more like she asked the technician to get her husband and called out to her husband who presumably just walked in.

Also, "they discussed the chain on a previous visit" doesn't really change anything. Depending on how many people that technician sees and when that last visit was, they might've just forgotten.

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 week ago

9 fucking kilograms!? For my fellow Americans, that’s almost 20 pounds!

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Can you convert that to tennis balls? I can't do this math on my own

[-] ebolapie@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Somewhere between 150 and 160, depending on the tennis balls. Hope this helps

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=9kg+%2F+mass+of+a+tennis+ball

Edit: Additionally, that's about 63½ European swallows, assuming an average weight of 5 ounces. Given that a European swallow must beat its wings 43 times per second to maintain airspeed velocity, it'd be a proper racket.

Tap for spoilerThose numbers are from monty python and the holy grail and are very wrong. I am spreading misinformation online.

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[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I feel like someone should have noticed. I'm pretty sure I've never seen someone wearing a twenty pound necklace.

[-] somewhiteguy@reddthat.com 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What kind of hospital let him get near the room with that kind of metal around his neck? I've had to be in several hospitals recently for different imaging issues and every time the MRI is a thing I have to remove everything metal to go past a certain door (escorting my daughter and son for medical reasons). I don't know who let him anywhere near the room with something that large.

Edit for Clarity: I've had to be the one removing all metal even though I'm not the one being scanned. For me to progress beyond a certain part of the hospital toward the MRI I needed to get rid of everything. My children were being scanned, not me. So, I'm not sure what hospital system allowed this man with a 9kg chain get this far deep into the imaging area.

[-] drool@lemmy.catsp.it 24 points 1 week ago

He wasn't supposed to be in the room. There was a scan in progress when he entered.

Seems to me all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength placed opposite of, and perhaps a bit closer to the doorway, to pull intruders away from the MRI room.

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

His wife told News 12 Long Island in a recorded interview that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee when she asked the technician to get her husband to help her get off the table. She said she called out to him.

Whole thing is heart breaking all around. I feel for the technician who made an honest but very serious mistake. And I'm sure the wife will spend her days regretting asking for help. Just a fucking tragic situation. :/

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[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 week ago

all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength

MRI magnets are electromagnets that are supercooled with liquid helium and take hours to start or stop because of the electrical energy that has to be put in or taken out.

So just having a magnet of equal strengh for idiot defense would be a very significant waste of electricity and helium unfortunately

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[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 week ago

So many dumb ways to die...

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[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It really sucks, but of course it was an idiot from Nassau county 🙄

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

For anyone who might not know the area, Nassau County is the place that gave us George Santos. It is burgundy-red, only bested in racism by Suffolk county. The police departments are notoriously racist and will pull you over and interrogate you just for driving a beater. This was one of Trump's favorite police departments during his first term, he infamously told them to bash people's heads against their cop cars when arresting them.

Sadly there are many very left leaning people trapped on Long Island, unable to leave because LI is an employment wasteland. It's not cheap to live on LI either.

Anyways, an idiot from Nassau won't be missed.

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[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 week ago

The man, 61, had entered the MRI room while a scan was underway

How was that allowed?

he asked the technician to get her husband to help her get off the table.

...while the machine was still working? And isn't that the job of the technician anyway?

the technician helped her try to pull her husband off the machine but it was impossible.

Those machines have a kill-switch for a reason.

I call this BS or a very incompetent technician.
Plus a Darwin award for the guy.

[-] UnspecificGravity@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Couple things:

The magnet is ALWAYS on.

The "kill switch" takes about five minutes to actually deactivate the magnet and it costs about thirty grand in helium every time you push it.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

Isn't it an electomagnet?

it costs about thirty grand in helium every time you push it.

Oh, right, i forgot human lives have a price in the US.

[-] UnspecificGravity@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Its a superconducting magnet that cannot be instantly shut off. I am sorry that the physics of this makes you so angry.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Depends on the machine type. Closed bore machines (the vast majority) use supercunducting electromagnets that are surrounded by liquid helium that creates a very strong magnetic field. To demagnetize them requires dumping the helium.

Some open bore machines use electromagnets, but they're much less common and not as powerful.

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[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

The US is an outlier in how it charges prices for healthcare services.

But every country in the world has prices charged for cold liquid helium. It's very expensive to gather, process, store, and ship, regardless of what kind of health care economics apply in your country.

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[-] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 27 points 1 week ago

We need a /c/NotFinalDestination, this is literally one of the scenes in the last entry to the franchise.

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[-] explodIng_lIme@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

True winner of a Darwin award

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 week ago

Surely 9kg necklace isn't something you can just sneak around with, how was he allowed to get close enough to an MRI machine in the first place wearing it?

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[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Don't know how quickly custom vinyl stickers can be bought & delivered, but someone needs to slap a "Died Like A Cartoon Character" achievement on his casket/headstone.

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[-] MadnessForTsar@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

9 kilograms Necklace?! What kind of necklace is that?

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[-] WillFord27@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

So glad to find that Lemmy is even less empathetic than reddit was. Real faith in humanity killer. Shocking how many people decided to comment without touching the article, really proud to be here..

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[-] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

So, if the MRI spins at 12 RPM, does the dude also spin at 12 RPM?

Asking for a friend.

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[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

9kg-metal necklace

Did he drag his knuckles?

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