A 61-year-old man who suffered critical injuries after being pulled into an MRI machine while wearing a metal chain has died, police said Friday.
The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon at a medical building in Westbury, New York, according to the Nassau County Police Department.
Officers responded to Nassau Open MRI following a 911 call and were informed that the man “entered an unauthorized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room while the scan was in progress,” the police department said in a statement.
The language here is really confusing and the link to the police statement is broken for me. When they say and unauthorized MRI room do they mean he was unauthorized to enter or something about the MRI room being unauthorized, like a backroom dodgy deal sort of thing?
Context clues help. What’s more likely - someone walking into a room they weren’t supposed to, or some place trying to covertly use a $500k-$1 million multi-ton machine whose operation is anything but discrete.
Yeah, I think the sentence structure is not really clear and while reality tries very hard to constrain humans we are creative and make chaos wherever we go. Could it have been a backroom MRI? I mean, I should be able to say absolutely not, definitely not, and yet, here we are. The modern American healthcare system is so scam and grift filled that the idea of someone taking an MRI, maybe an old outdated one, and then offering services without proper training and oversight so they can undercut and make a profit is not outlandish. It should be so obvious this was bad wording. We live in the worst timeline.
I found a NY Times article, which starts out:
Unauthorized 61 year old man walks into an active MRI room wearing a steel/gold plated neck chain… I assume he ignored the giant warning signs.
We need to start authorizing people to be 61.
As long as they pass regular competency tests to prove they’re not a danger to society (e.g., intending to run for president or some nonsense like that), yeah, sure, why not.
Otherwise, though, it’s Soylent Green time.
Maybe he thought it was real gold, which would’ve been safe?
I wouldn’t go into an MRI room if I wasn’t a patient naked in just a gown. Fuck that.
Even something like a belt buckle could get yanked.
Safety warnings are for woke liberal snowflakes!
Was this guy a dog? Gangster?
How does one simply enter an MRI room so easily while it’s running?
Such a bizarre story.
If the door isn’t locked… well, yeah you can just enter.
It’ll stop the scan. But that’s about it. The magnet never turns off unless you hit the quench button, which will cause irriversable damage. Only used in matters of life and death.
I’ve had a few, but I don’t recall it ever being easy to just walk in. Considering how dangerous they can be, it seems like someone messed up.
The former. He was never meant to enter that room while the MRI was being conducted for another patient.
Glad it wasn’t a dodgy backroom MRI or similar.
I had the same complaint/confusion, thankfully elucidated by others’ earlier replies.
I conclude that this ABC journalist, Meredith Deliso, is simply incompetent and ill-suited to her profession, lacking talent and verve for clarity of expression. Fuckin’ typical.
The “while the scan was in progress” part made it pretty clear to me that he was someplace that he wasn’t supposed to be.
However, “unauthorized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room” also very clearly states that the room itself did not have proper authorization.
My guess is that it failed to get authorization due to the lack of electronic door locks that prevent people from wandering in while the machine is hot. /s