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The woman reportedly screamed out in pain as she was being taken out of the machine.
An anonymous medical provider reported the strange incident to the Food and Drug Administration in April 2023, though it’s received renewed media attention this week. The 22-year-old woman reportedly screamed out in pain as she was pulled out of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine following a scan, which then prompted her delayed admission of having had a “butt plug” inserted.
Don’t they? The few MRI machines I’ve seen do at the entrance to avoid this shit
Metal detectors aren’t ceryycheap but MRI machines are so grossly expensive that the cost of the metal detectors is pennies on the dollar
Aren’t metal detectors like… very cheap, actually? At least the sort of tech they use in handheld ones is somewhat inexpensive as you can get hobbyist metal detectors for the ground for like 40 euros, new. Ofc there’s also pro model going for like 600e or more.
My point here being that a very rudimentary one should do the trick in thick case.
Although people really should know whether they have any metal on them, but accidents happen, people forget and do dumb things. A little noise would be beneficial to let people know about the metal — accidental or not.
A metal detector port with (why not?) a gate in front of it that refuses to open in case metal is detected really is still chump change compared to an MRI machine
I thought as much too.
Staff incompetence, probably?
I’m thinking more:
“If they don’t disclose ferrous metal and it breaks them, it’s on them. If it breaks our stuff, it’s still on them to pay us for the damages.”
I had an MRI a few months back with no metal detector before.
Eh I mean considering how infrequently stupid incidents like this occur, I think using a high quality metal detector wand would be far cheaper, easier to deploy. Even if it takes an extra minute per wanding. It surely would have detected a metal butt plug.