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Woman Enters MRI With Butt Plug, Ends Up In Hospital (gizmodo.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Call me crazy but maybe these MRI clinics should have walk thru metal detectors installed. Schools have them now, why wouldn't they?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Metal detectors? Are you serious? It's not like people are carrying guns in there. Oh wait...

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/lapd-officer-lost-gun-in-mri-machine-during-mistargeted-raid-report-says/

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I had an MRI a few months back with no metal detector before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Staff incompetence, probably?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Lots of metals aren't detected by those. I have a single piece of body jewelry that weighs over half a pound, and it's never been picked up by either walk-thru or hand wand metal detectors. Maybe they set the sensitivity too low, but even airports have missed that piece of jewelry (prior to back-scatter x-rays, etc.). I've worn it through two MRIs, along with all of my other piercings, and had zero problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe it's not a metal that's ferrous?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

As far as my own body jewelry goes, that's 100% it.

(And, if you want to be paranoid, just think: non-ferrous metals aren't going to show up on airport metal detectors either. Nor do ceramics, although ceramic metal matrices do. They'll show up on x-rays, but last I knew you could opt out of x-rays, and the pat down that the TSA does is NOT as thorough as they think it is.)