Wow that’s a new one.
I’ll share a personal experience - once I was fiddling around with a patient’s IV while he was on the MR scanner table. My head came within ~1 foot of the bore of the scanner at some point, and I could feel my glasses getting pulled off my face. Thankfully I snapped my head back and nothing ever came of it.
Respect the strength of the magnet.
Guessing the gun was a glock or something, which has a body that is not metal. So he thought it was safe. Except the firing pin is metal, so that’d be a problem…
“It’s a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn’t show up on your airport X-ray machines here and it costs more than what you make in a month!” - Die Hard
(Every single detail of this quote is wrong btw)
Plenty of components of a glock are made out of metal, the entire upper slide of a glock is metal, components in the magazine, trigger mechanism, etc are as well.
Bullets are likely still metal.
Lead and brass don’t get attracted to magnets. They may get warm from the changing magnetic field though.
Not metal, or not ferromagnetic? If not metal, is it made out of plastic?
Not just the firing pin, but the side, barrel, and plenty of other parts on a Glock are not just metal but steel. The frame is the only thing that’s plastic.
You can induce a magnetic field in a nonferromagnetic metal by exposing it to an oscillating magnetic field… I would imagine an MRI would qualify.
Not applicable to this case I suspect, but relevant to your question.
Maybe it depends on the metal, but I have titanium artificial disks in the base of my back that are safe to put through an MRI.
Titanium is very minimally interactive. It is still affected by Lenz’s Law, which means it does interact with magnetic fields (a current is induced), but you’re right that the effect is minimal enough so as to be disregarded.
I don’t understand why people keep going into MRI machines with metal. Don’t they specifically tell you to take off all your metal?
He probably wasn’t allowed to have his gun in the hospital at all, and was worried that if he took it off somebody would notice and take it away.
I just had an MRI 3 weeks ago and the tech asked me about 4 times if I was sure I took off all metal on my body and I kept saying I was positive. He eventually told me that people seem to think their metal bra hooks or metal eyelets on their shoes “don’t count” for whatever reason. I told him I was still positive I had no metal because I had planned to be in an MRI that day and wore appropriate clothing, but apparently some people just don’t get it that it’s everything.
They need to say all your metal and guns.
They should sue the lawyer. It costs ALOT of money to power down and power back up an MRI machine.
you can’t sue a corpse
You often can. I don’t know what the law is like in Brazil, but in many places you can file a claim against a deceased person’s estate for damages caused by that person, within a certain period.
When you are so deep into gun culture that you can’t get an MRI without a weapon on you.
The only thing that can stop a bad MRI machine with a gun is a good MRI machine with a gun.
He didn’t get an MRI. He was standing near the MRI machine where his mother was getting an MRI.
That makes more sense.
Murica!
Nottheonion??
Why don’t hospitals install walk through metal detectors you have to go through to get in the room? Like airports have before you can get to the terminal.
Cost.
What about a cheapo metal detector that you’d use to search for buried treasure?
I don’t know… Even a metal detector wand? What can that cost? I see them at concert venues and ballparks. MRIs are notoriously expensive and they can be borked when hit by metal. I feel like safety precautions (for people and for cost savings) would far out weigh the cost of metal detectors. And like I said, metal detecting wands are probably super cheap.
I think metal detectors may still miss small objects and give a false sense of security
Do not taunt giant scary monster magnet.
Omg “These loud banging sounds are yet another reason why it’s a bad idea to take an MRI scanner into a movie theater.”
Was not expecting this from Forbes!
Didn’t this already happen a couple of years ago?
Well, you’re probably thinking of this exact incident, which happened in Brazil in January of this year. It’s just, you know, internet time.
So… am I going insane or is that incident exactly what this link is talking about?
Um…yup, that’s the one. Damn that was just January?!
No intelligent life was harmed that day. Good riddance.
