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by ruph123 648 days ago
Wait so the people were pulled into the magnetic field? Were they wearing ferromagnetic metal items that were pulled in? And what does that have to do with the vest that the patient is wearing? If that is ferromagnetic, would that not just simply be stuck inside the MRI?
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More info, for anyone interested:

https://www.auntminnieeurope.com/medical-legal-and-practice/...

> The nurse had tucked a total of 13 metal weights into the pockets of the vest, and it was these weights that pulled him into the scanner.

The nurse was wearing a weighted vest. Presumably the weights were metal of some sort. I can only imagine the sort of metal gear the security guards were wearing. Those guys love dangling stuff from their belt.