{"id":73848,"date":"2025-07-18T23:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73848\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:01:10","slug":"man-pulled-into-mri-machine-after-he-walked-into-an-exam-room-wearing-a-chain-necklace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73848\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pulled into MRI machine after he walked into an exam room wearing a chain necklace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 A man was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large chain necklace, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The man, 61, had entered an MRI room while a scan was underway Wednesday afternoon at Nassau Open MRI. The machine\u2019s strong magnetic force drew him in by his metallic necklace, according to the Nassau County Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the incident \u201cresulted in a medical episode\u201d that left the man hospitalized in critical condition. Authorities did not release his name and did not have an update on the man\u2019s condition on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"ap-audio-man-pulled-into-mri-machine-after-he-walked-into-an-exam-room-wearing-a-chain-necklace\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                    AP AUDIO: Man pulled into MRI machine after he walked into an exam room wearing a chain necklace\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"AudioEnhancement-description\">AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports on a man pulled into an MRI machine.<\/p>\n<p>A person who answered the phone at Nassau Open MRI on Long Island declined to comment Friday. <\/p>\n<p>MRI machines \u201cemploy a strong magnetic field\u201d that \u201cexerts very powerful forces on objects of iron, some steels, and other magnetizable objects,\u201d according to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, which says the units are \u201cstrong enough to fling a wheelchair across the room.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 A man was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[51344,57,210,51557,405,403,404,50,406,15228,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-73848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-general-domestic-news","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-medical-diagnostic-technology","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-wire","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-ny-state-wire","18":"tag-oddities","19":"tag-u-s-news","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114876729597807913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}