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Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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How was that allowed?
...while the machine was still working? And isn't that the job of the technician anyway?
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.
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.
Not to mention it's not renewable. Once it his the upper atmosphere, you can't get it back.
It’s Helium, it’s not exactly rare.