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Who said being stuck inside a noisy, claustrophobic metal tube couldn’t be fun?
An unidentified woman in Wisconsin was left with two extra holes in her butt after taking a loaded firearm into an MRI machine during a doctor’s appointment in June, the Food and Drug Administration announced. record show.
The 57-year-old woman was carrying a concealed handgun as she slipped into the MRI hole, but when the machine’s powerful magnet came into play, the metal trigger tripped and the gun fired.
“The patient sustained a gunshot wound to the right hip,” said a device use issue report submitted to the FDA in July by the woman’s insurance company.
“Physicians on scene examined the patient and described the entry and exit holes as being very small and superficial, penetrating only the subcutaneous tissue.”
After the woman was shot in the buttocks, she was hospitalized and treated for her wounds. She has since made a full recovery, her report states.
It is unclear how the woman brought the murder weapon into the MRI room. According to her report, she underwent a routine inspection of metal objects and that she was not wearing any prior to her entry.
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) uses magnetic fields generated by very powerful magnets to create images of the inside of the human body. Their magnets are so powerful that patients must have all metal removed from their bodies, and all items entering the machine room are carefully monitored to prevent ordinary objects from becoming dangerous projectiles. .
Despite precautions, accidents caused by MRI machines are by no means unheard of.
Just in October, a nurse was critically injured at a San Francisco hospital when she became wedged between an MRI and a hospital bed.
In January, a Brazilian lawyer died in a Sao Paulo hospital after a handgun he had strapped to his waistband was torn from his pants and fired into his stomach.
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