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A very attractive fail.
Looks like it’s fielding bed.
^the
(Fisrt post and I still got it wrong *sigh*)
I will book you in for an MRI.
Massage Rear Invigoration?
MASSIVE Rectal Insertion.
Morbid Robot Insemination.
Metal Recycling Initiated
Moronic Research Institution.
metal rape invention
Moomin Rues Inhibitions
*polite squeeze*
my…raining…innit?
Morning ‘Rousal Intention
im a combo breaka
I am a real physician…it’s not just a clever avatar.
This does, unfortunately happen, folks. When you have poorly trained individuals, instead of trained doctors performing MRIs, this is what you get.
Several deaths alone and many injuries in the past year. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Obama plans to pay for his “Health Care Overhaul” by reducing reimbursements to us doctors up to 40%, causing many of us to go out of business.
Get used to this…because it’s going to become more common.
And it’s perfectly acceptable to pay Julia Roberts $20 million to act in a movie, or David Ortiz $10 million to play baseball for a year.
But let’s cut 40% of the MEAGER reimbursement that a doctor gets.
Sorry, but impending EPIC American Medical System Catastrophe Fail.
Rant is over. I now return you to the arts.
–Flutter
Ok Doc, you must have been watching a little too much house MD cause I never see a doctor running an MRI machine and I have been in healthcare for 15 years. The MRI Technologist must not have been in the area at the time or was not paying attention to what was going on. The patient should not have been brought to the MRI unit on that bed at all. There are special stretchers made for use in the MRI unit. I will agree the that the new healthcare plan will be an epic fail.
I’m not a Dr. or an MRI tech, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express….
Mutating radioactive ill people
Flutter and Healthcare, I agree that the national healthcare plan will be a MASSIVE failure. MRI techs DO transfer patients from regular gurneys or beds onto special transfer carts. Same with wheelchairs. I should know…I help the techs transfer the patients.
sorry doc, u have no sympathy from me. last doctor i saw was driving around in a $200000 car (brand new MB SL65 AMG) and u think doctors barely get by!?!?! either youre full of crap and dont want to take a long overdue pay cut or you just arent a good doctor.
I am surprised the lights are still on.
so were the nurses
the mri showed a large object around the primary motor cortex
HAHA MRI Has a lot of Nomin to do! NOMNOMNOMNOM….
Aaargh! Hide Qwaz! Cannibal robots on the loose!
Skynet does not hide below your bed to attack you at night. Skynet eats you and the bed at daylight.
Was this the resistance disguising people as robots to infiltrate Skynet? They just can’t see outside the disguise and attack metal objects at random?
The chaos. After that, Skynet disguised robots as trees, resistance disguised humans as furniture, Skynet disguised itself as the Statue of Liberty, and turtles disguised themselves as koalas.
After some time, nobody knew who to attack and what to eat.
Did you write the Goon Show? You just reminded me of this. . .
Greenslade:
Seagoon and Bluebottle travelled by sea. To avoid detection by enemy U-boats they spoke German throughout the voyage, heavily disguised as Spaniards.
Sellers:
As an added precaution they travelled on separate decks and wore separate shoes on different occasions.
Seagoon:
The ship was disguised as a train, to make the train sea-worthy it was done up to look like a boat and painted to appear like a tram.
Infiltration and espionage jobs can interfere with your private life. I don’t remember if I am a cat disguised as a dog or a dog disguised as a cat.
‘This never happened to the other fellow’
That’s because we don’t see Moore of him.
But he had such Pierce-ing wit.
Ah, but it was wasted on his numerous Odd jobs.
Teehee
Nicknack
Don’t touch that! That’s my lunch…
WTF just happend?………..
I’m just hoping that the patient wasn’t in the bed at the time.
Maybe he died?
I absolutely do not want to know what happened when there was someone in that bed with a pacemaker…. the thing would probably have got pulled right out his chest…
sound like a good plot for a horror film
Cept most pacemakers aren’t ferromagnetic enough for this to happen to them, which is part of the design process. Yep, lots of other people look at stuff like this and go “Hmm… what would happpen if…?”
While the magnet may not pull the pacemaker out of the patient’s chest, it will cause it to malfunction, and interfere with its “pace making.” Which, of course, can still cause the patient serious harm and/or death.
Actually, not anymore. I’m an EP Cardiologist, and I implant them. MRIs have actually been shown to be safe with Medtronic and Boston Scientific PPMs implanted after 2004. The magnet merely causes temporary revision of programming. There is no more “Reed switch” to worry about.
Although not recommended, even ICDs (defibrillators) have been shwon to be virtually safe in limited observational studies.
However, our country’s health plan is still f-cked. Please see my previous post above.
Go Phillies.
–Flutter
In reference to your previous post, exactly what doctor is going to divert his/her time energy to running MRI scans? Also, in my clinical studies, I’ve noticed that physicians are just as prone to human error as others employed in the medical field. Obviously someone messed up here, but having doctors run MRI machines does not sound like a practical solution to me.
Actually, in my 10+ years as a nurse, I’ve found them to be even more prone to human error….usually because they have absolutely no idea of who the person in the bed is besides a room #, Dx, and billing code. Docs can’t even make the time to sign orders…..now they handle MRI’s? Never on my shift….
Pardon the exception, Dr….but aren’t there an exorbitant number of pacemakers out there from before 2004? I know at least 6 patients off the top of myhead with pacers implanted well before that.
According to the journal Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, it has been found that MRI’s may be safe for a select population of those with pacers, but even the New England Journal of Medicine says much more research is needed before it can be deemed “safe”.
Apparently the Reed switch/anachrynous pacing aren’t the only issues. Other effects such as thermal damage to the unit, component failures, or even mechanical vibration give reason to pause as well….
Just my lowly nurses input
if you have a pacemaker, you won’t be getting an MRI, unless your doctor/radiologist is a complete tard.
retracting my previous comment. i guess i’m the tard.
although i work with NMR instruments, and all the warning signs still say do not go near the magnet if you have a pacemaker. an MRI machine is the same thing only bigger, so /shrug.
Yes, Phil, that’s true. The warnings must remain.
But in a recent study of 135 patients subjected to a 3 Ts MRI with pacemaker, exactly zero of them suffered any PPM disability. In a similar retrospective study, 52 patients with ICDs who were exposed to 1.5 Ts and 3 Ts MRis, only one patient had an issue…an episoide of VF, secondary to the heating of the distal coil present on old Medtronic 6949 leads.
MRI Tech–you are right, no physician runs an MRI any more. But I was trying to illustrate a point. In less than 5 years, when you go into a hospital with an acute MI, you will more-than-likely be seen by a nurse practitioner only, as they, as Time magazine puts it (8/3/09) “Can diagnose and treat any disease that doctors do, at less than 20% of the cost.”
And good luck trying to be seen by a physician…we will have been run out of business by the new “health care overhaul.”
Don’t believe me? See what happens on January 1, 2010, when Medicare reduces payments to doctors 23%, combined with Obama’s plan to reduce reimbursement an additional 11%.
So many doctors will go out of business….America won’t know what hit them. But don’t take my word for it. It is happening. It WILL happen. I’m not trying to be an alarmist here.
But we are headed for that inevitable brick wall and the life-ending CRASH.
Masybe I should learned to play baseball or been an actor. Because what would we DO without throwing huge sums of $$ to watch these buffoons perform?
Good luck….in six months, we will all need it. Impending and catastrophic EPIC American medical system FAIL…in progress.
Are you kidding me?! You docs are worried about losing your jobs? Look, your lobbyists got us into this health care system mess, why don’t you be responsible and attempt to get us out, with EVERYONE receiving the care they need. And don’t shit on nurse practitioners, we’re only stepping up to pick up your slack, sorry we’re doing a better job at it for and at a fraction of the cost, but someone needs to provide Primary Care, whilst you idiots go into specialized medicine so you can brag to your friends and quote stupid journal articles and drive that nice new BMW. NPs get paid shit, we take your shit, and we do it because we care about the patients.
OK. This is my first post ever and it is because I cant believe your (Mesuba)post. I will break it down. I am finishing my residency and have been in healthcare for many years already.
1. “You docs are worried about losing your jobs? Look, your lobbyists got us into this health care system mess, why don’t you be responsible and attempt to get us out, with EVERYONE receiving the care they need.”
Not really worried about losing my job (or not getting one) but that we wont get paid enough to offset the 12yrs of training and $200+K in loans. I have friends who do half the work I do and get paid 2x as much. It is not right to decrease MD payments to the point where you get $8 per patient (thank you Medicaid).
2, “And don’t shit on nurse practitioners, we’re only stepping up to pick up your slack, sorry we’re doing a better job at it for and at a fraction of the cost, but someone needs to provide Primary Care, whilst you idiots go into specialized medicine so you can brag to your friends and quote stupid journal articles and drive that nice new BMW.”
OK. Not even sure how to begin here. Picking up our slack. Nice. How about the clinics are overwhelmed with patients who demand to be seen yesterday, flood the ED every time they get the sniffles because swine flu is in the news or cant be bothered to get an appt with a primary MD. We are understaffed and the time and requirements for documentation and billing are horrific. I could see at least 50% more patients if the gov would decrease the BS paperwork, phone calls needed to get prescribed care authorized, and insurance companies would stop changing practices and denying treatment for no valid reason. These reasons, among others, drive some MD’s into specialties because there is less hassle and more pay. If the gov would increase, yes increase, reimbursement for family and gen med types more MD’s would stay there and more people could be seen by an MD in a timely manner.
3. “NPs get paid shit, we take your shit, and we do it because we care about the patients.”
I do believe that NP’s care. However, get paid shit? The NP’s I know make at least $75-130K a year and work about half the hours I do. If that pay is shit to you I am not sure anything would make you happy. They also have about half the education and the MD’s have the ultimate responsibility in clinic for the patient care. That is not a bad deal for NP’s and most of the ones I see know it.
Don’t put MD’s down because they specialize, they have been driven to that by the government, insurance companies, and the legal system (which is a whole other topic).
THanks, MedRes.
I couldn’t have said it any better.
Actually, I DID say it better, but FailBlog decided to not post it because I said a$$ one too many times.
If you need a job, give me a call.
-Flutter
Thank you MedRes, you make some very wonderful points here. I know this is not the space for this disucssion, but I whole-heartedly appreciate your input. I love my job, as do you. My post was simply a knee jerk response to flutterdoc’s fox news-esq fear mongering and his slam at nurse practitioners. I like you, I have no beef with you!
1. Perhaps MD training is in need of an overhaul? I agree that 12+ years of training, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans is obnoxious. And many of my MD friends sought out MPH and GMS degrees prior, just so that they could get into decent schools, so tack on a few more thousand there. I’m looking at 3 years of education and 150 grand in loans (for education at top school, I could have gone cheaper), and I walk out with a prescription pad and the ability to work independently in some states. Nursing has struggled for respect for years, perhaps they (and PA programs) are onto the future of medical training? Most of my colleagues were pre-med until they realized that NP was a much better route in terms of time and money. And as for your friends who make more money, I’m assuming that they are probably in the financial/corporate world? Well, they are getting theirs at the moment, as they have caused an economic crisis to tsunami the world…
2. You agree that few new MD grads seek out primary care and that this has created an opening for NPs to step in? It is not glamorous and doesn’t pay well, so few have the heart to do it. I know many MDs who chose their career path simply for the bragging right. They have rude bedside manner, and they treat anyone under them with contempt. They ruin it for those of you who care. You are obviously not one of those people, we need more like you! Thank you for doing what you do. Perhaps if the focus of health care was on good prevention and primary care, we would not have as much need for specialized care? Awesome that you brought up increased reimbursement for primary care! The public needs to support this!!!
3. As for my comment about making shit for money. Yes, pay is typically between 70k-130k, but this is still less than MDs and PAs, and male NPs are making 8% more than female NPs. I’m also concerned that this will not offset the cost of my education. I worry that NPs are being seen as cheap labor and are thus being paid as such, instead of being compensated for the true benefits that they bring to health care.
Part of the anger that came out in my initial post was at the lack of respect that seems to permeate medicine, not just at nurses, but towards everyone. I have friends in residency with horror stories of how they’ve been treated, I know NPs that are treated horribly by RNs, I know MDs who won’t discuss patient care with NPs simply because they aren’t MDs, I know NPs who are expected to act as the MDs secretary. It would be nice to see a more respectful collaborative practice with the understanding that everyone plays an important role in providing optimal health for the patients.
Once again, my post was removed by Failblog.
That’s TWICE.
I wonder what they’re afraid of?!
True Failblog FAIL.
Sigh. I suppose we’ll just let the nurse practitioners rule the world, huh?
no need to be bitter
Nerd argument FAIL
Or is it a WIN….
I did not see flutterdoc “slam” nurse practitioners. What I saw is flutterdoc quote a Time magazine article which stated: that nurse practioners “Can diagnose and treat any disease that doctors do, at less than 20% of the cost.”
Do you agree with that statement?
You responded to MedRes by putting words in his mouth. Point #1: he never said the training and cost of MD education was “obnoxious” so you are not agreeing with him. He was making a point justifying MD salaries.
#2: his point was that increased reimbursement for primary care would attract more MDs. You seem to agree with the increased reimbursement but for a different reason since you think that MDs turn away from primary care because of their egos. Personally, I’d rather be seen by an egotistical MD with rude bedside manner (and over a decade of medical education) than an RN who has resentment over their wage and thinks they are as capable as the former.
#3:You’re concerned about if your wage will offset the cost of your education? How about examining the ratios instead? Divide your education cost by your wage. If the number you calculate is smaller than that which you calculate for MDs then you best reformulate your argument to serve your interests. Concerning gender inequality I can only suggest you study the teachings of Dick Masterson.
As for the analysis of your anger, you are describing politics. Do you honestly believe this is something specific to your field? Heck, it exists inside the White House, engineering firms, and fast-food restaurants!
To me it seems like your anger stemmed from flutterdoc’s quote of Time magazine. What’s the matter? Upset that you’re not a doctor?
I have do desire to be a doctor, and I will never have practiced as an RN, I am perfectly content with my career, it takes the best of RN and the best of MD and pulls it together into one career. It is everything I could have hoped for and more. And you prove my point about lack of respect with that very sentence. Thanks.
Where is your argument? You are saying nothing.
I simply agreed with MedRes and added my reasons to why I agreed with him. You choose to throw that out as your argument? So my reasons are different from his, as my background gives me reason to be, but does that really matter when we are in agreement?
I have no problem with the Time article, it was flutterdoc’s interpretation that docs were going to be out of a job because NPs can do everything they can do, but for less cost. Perhaps I misread the sarcasm I thought he was implying…
And as far as your 3rd point, when I get a job, I’ll be sure to remember that. Very helpful, that information…
Yes, politics, they do suck don’t they. I worked in academia (neurology/neuropsychology) for 10 years and the biotech industry for 3. There are problems everywhere. But IN MY OPINION they are quite pathetic in medicine. You seem to have a problem with me pointing it out and commenting on how it would be nice to make attempts to change that for the future? I’m sorry, I guess I’m a bit more progressive in my desire to not follow status quo. I am not a follower. I have and will continue to demand equality in everything I do, but I will also prove that I deserve it. I chose my career so that I could contribute to the betterment of society, and if it means fighting a couple of peeps on FAIL blog, I’ll do it.
typo: I have no desire to be a doc…
As someone who previously had a successful career as a Medical Administration Assistant (meaning the one who actually does all the paperwork for the damned insurance companies), and is now on the other side of things as an American disabled by a brain tumor and subsequent treatment of said, I have to disagree only slightly with you.
If we were to simply abolish insurance, except when used as actual insurance (i.e. when you honestly need a life-saving procedure you cannot afford, ever), rather than health coverage, doctors/hospitals wouldn’t have to employ people like me, plus two more just to handle the paperwork. Doctors could largely charge what people pay now in co-pays, in terms of office visits, and make just as much money.
As it stands now, they have to employ at least three ti four people to handle it all, per doctor: a clinical medical assistant, an administrative medical assistant, and generally a biller/coder, as well as a transcriptionist. Sometimes they need a file clerk, for larger offices, as well. Each of these people makes, in general, anywhere from $10-$15/hr on the west coast, minimum.
Further, what the doctor charges, some paper-pusher at the insurance company looks at and decides, “Nah, you’re not actually worth that, so we’re going to pay you a tiny percentage of that, instead, and you’re going to like it. Oh, and since you’re a participating provider, you’re also not allowed to bill the patient for the difference. Further, if you don’t get all of this paperwork in to us and letter perfect, along with every other little thing we ask for, up to and including your first child on a silver platter, within 30 days, we don’t have to pay you. If you do, you still won’t see any money from us for 6 months. Have fun with the bill collectors in the meantime!”
And don’t even get me started on the huge costs HIPPA has incurred on the medical system, while being a completely self-defeating piece of legislation.
Hear, hear!
That’s the elephant in the room that no one talks about: How private insurance companies screw doctors as their way of reaping record profits.
MESUBA…while I don’t think you’re entirely wrong….the completely unprofessional way you portray yourself doesn’t really help the standpoint for nurses.
1)NP’s get paid far from poorly….if they are accomplished enough to be in the role eluded to by flutterdoc that is.
2)I have yet to meet an NP that takes ANY flak from the docs. Unlike flutterdoc, most I know are grateful to give up their problem patients and overload.
3)While I, too, took my stab at flutterdoc and all physicians in my post, fair is fair….YOU may have become a nurse (if you are one) because you care about patients, but I have certainly worked with my fair share who were ignorant, lazy, and rotten to patients as well. While there are lots of docs out there that do seem to be in it for the title and the money, there is good and bad in everything. Not all docs are bad…..and not all NP’s are great.
I just think the cursing and mud slinging is probably not the best way to try to show superiority….or even equality.
ps…I was not questioning that you are a nurse, as I had only read your first post….just didn’t know if you were. Have now read your addt’l posts, and so wanted to clarify.
A Dr. tried to give me “Tylenol 3″ for a mismanaged dental issue when I was 36 weeks pregnant in a high risk pregnancy….AND had “CODEINE ALLERGY” in big red letters on the front of my chart. When I protested a narcotic, and particularly tylenol 3, he asked why. I stated I had a codeine allergy and he said “so?” SERIOUSLY? The NP explained to him politely that Tylenol 3 is, as I am quite sure you know, codeine.
My father went to the ER 4 yrs ago with pain in his arm. He was 64yoa, 5′9″ and 273lbs, Type 2 diabetic and on BP meds. Of course he was immediately triaged as possible MI. When I arrived I was told his EKG showed “no significant changes”, he was out of pain, and would be discharged. I asked about cardiac enzymes, bloodwork, etc, and the Dr in the ER said…and I quote…”I just love all you nurses who want to know better than the docs. If you wanted to diagnose, why did you become a nurse instead of a physician?” Not that it was his business, but I had actually been accepted to Johns Hopkins AND Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science for their pre-med tracks…with scholarship money….just not enough for me to afford it. So it
wasn’t, as he’d insinuated, that I could “only” be a nurse, not a doctor….but the comment was just so ignorant I didn’t feel the need to qualify it and further feed his obvious God complex.
HOWEVER, when the NP came to give Rx’s and discharge info, I asked the same questions. She got his chart and looked at his last 3 Ekgs….not just the one he had had 2 wks prior….and saw definitive changes. My father was stabilized, shipped to the nearby hospital where he could have a cath, and sat in ICU on meds over the weekend. The cardiologist glanced at his file, called my family by the wrong name and said he expected to “go in, maybe clean out a little buildup, and send him home” He went on to say he felt the ER doc was right.
When cardiac enzymes came back, they were (BIG SURPRISE) “off”. When he did the cath, the doc came out to tell us he had “no idea” how my dad had made it there. He had 3 blockages, and the one in his left main was over 80%. He was working on about 20% heart function,and the doc now said that if he had had another (inevitable) heart attack….he wouldn’t have made it to a stretcher. My father had his lifesaving open heart bypass surgery 2 days later. The NP saved his life…the doc would have sent him home to die. All she did was listen to the people who knew him better than her….something a lot of docs fail miserably at doing.
The man I talked about above, my Dad, had me standing in on surgeries and autopsies at his hospital when I was 12. I watched films on hip replacements when he left the hospital to pioneer the first hip and knee replacements, and remember overhearing he and his friends laughing about how the surgeon
put the artificial knee in backwards so the lady’s knee bent backwards…and the salesman had to tell him how to fix it.
Since the age of 16 I have worked in and around the medical profession….1st as an aide, then as a nurse, now as a healthcare administrator.
Doctors are no more or less human that the rest of us, and they make as many mistakes as anyone else….although it usually gets blamed on someone else. There are many, many NP’s out there that I would gladly see rather than many of the doctors I have worked with. While I understand the motivation of your post….I didn’t like when they hired “medication aides” to give pills and inferred they could do it as well as nurses….I think it’s a misguided point of view. I completely agree that our new President will inevitably destroy healthcare as we know it (I didn’t vote for him) it’s not because he will “put dr’s out of business.” It’s because the whole industry is out of control and greedy. MRI’s should not cost $3500, and Medicaid should not reimburse $135 of it. An office visit in Pennsylvania should not be $60 and $125 in NJ. It is a corrupt and out of control system, and it desperately needs an overhaul…just not his. But NP’s are not putting Dr’s out of business…..Dr’s are.Try listening to and getting to know your patients. Stop overbooking your appointments so you can go to Aruba next summer….people don’t like to sit in a waiting room for 2 hours. Be a physician again…take an interest, do some research, and stop throwing everyone on antidepressants! Not all kids who hate school have ADD. Not all kids with a little different view of the world have Aspergers, and not everything needs to be treated with a pill….and of course the pill that is suggested by the Rep who brings the best lunches, not the one that works best or is most cost effective for your patient.
Doctors have done their share to push people the way of holistic medicine, Nurse Practitioners and “online clinics”….and as usual are quick to place the blame elsewhere!
WHEW!
Stepping off my little soapbox now…thanks for reading…goodnight Irene!!
Engineers are to drafters and doctors are to nurses.
When I was starting my engineering career, I was an arrogant prick. Now I realize that some of the guys with degrees are idiots, and some of the guys who couldn’t afford to finish school are pretty darned smart. I have yet to find a true self-educated genius, however – anybody that smart doesn’t have to pay for college.
It’s bad enough that we have x-ray techs coming out of a 2 year AA program cross training in MRI with no concept of magnetic physics and electric fields or even how to build or tweak efficient protocols based on the patient. I constantly see horrible exams being produced because a tech only knows how to pick a premade protocol and drop a stack and press “start”. How fail. Rads should stick to taking care of patients in the special procedures room and should be on the phone with their techs to guide imaging on the fly so patients get the care they deserve. Most of the time rads are overworked and understaffed and don’t have the opportunity to do the latter. Physicians don’t belong at the MRI console but there needs to be heavier certification processes for MRI. It really bothered me that R.T. (R)’s could run an MR machine with no credentials for a very long time.
You, Phil- yes you.
Are a person I will be staying away from if ever I should be unfortunate enough to be in the ER.
Shrug? “I guess I’m the tard”? As Gramma and every little metal thing she’s had impanted to keep her walking goes sailing across the room to be sucked into a giant magnet.
What the hell?
NOMZ. I’d eat that.
Bed and breakfast all rolled into one?
But the rates are very reasonable!
Weekly rapes?
1 or 2 per weeks sounds reasonable.
They’d better offer some baconlube if it’s any more than that.
Bed *is* breakfast!
And this is why rail guns will be win, we can even use patients as ammo!
I just had an image from Monty Python and the Holy Grail dance through my head. The scene where the French are firing livestock over the wall.
Railgun has no magnets.
No, but it creates a magnetic field you tool.
For a railgun, F=I*d*B, where I=current, d=distance between the rails and B is the magnetic field. The geometry of the system limits the field you can generate from the rails and projectile alone, but it’s easy to produce a large DC magnetic field. In practice, big railguns will often have a large (often superconducting) magnet for extra kick.
I hope the patient is alive…
He’ll be layed up for a bit.
Science is a wonderful thing. Waterbeds, vibrating beds, and now spin-drying beds.
Nom Fail? WTF?
Is that a town in Cambodia or something?
GM, did you read the little explanation below the FAIL?
Clickie for reference!!
I tried to, but it wasn’t written in English.
Shall I translate from gibberish?
The bed with ferromagnetic parts is attracted to MRI scanner, due to magnetism and the such. This amusingly looks like the MRI scanner is eating the bed. Har de har.
You nearly said hair dye hare. Purple would be kinky. Just sayin’.
(*waves, has to run*)
You got all THAT from “OMNOM…”?
Sheesh.
Prefer my version. Still think “Nom Fail” is somewhere in Cambodia.
OMNOMNOM is they sound Cookie Monster from the kids’ show “Sesame Street” makes when he eats something (I’d say cookies, but they have him eating all kinds of foods now). And because of the magnetism, that was explained by the poster above, the mri looks like it is eating the bed.
Thus the MRI is going OMNOMNOM while eating the delicious bed. Be right back, I’m getting hungry and there’s a nice couch right outside me room that I’ve been looking at for a while now
That looks to be about a million dollars in damages right there.
And you’re sending them the Bill
20 years ago I was an MRI Install/Service Engineer. MRI machines were new, everyone thought they were Big Special CAT Scanners. Examples of the “fun” we had with idiots who didn’t/couldn’t/wouldn’t read the WARNING: HIGH STRENGTH MAGNETIC FIELD DO NOT ENTER signs:
Stretchers, an Entire 2 Wheeled Dolly complete with Large mpty Oxygen Cylinder, Big Red Craftsman Toolbox full of Tools, Ink Pens (galore), loose tools, pieces of pipe, etc. Luckily most of this got sucked in during the initial install and testing phases when non-medical staff and craft workers where wandering around the imaging suite. Except for the dolly & O2 tank we could pull it all back out by hand w/o turning off the magnetic field, although the tool box took 3 people.
Looks like a giant pencil sharpener..
Either it was an accident or someone got bored in the hospital, strapped on some protective gear and let er’ go!
Open the pod bay door please, Hal.
I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.
Here, let me do it…
*presses Ctrl+Alt+Delete on HAL’s control panel*
There!
LOL From Dark Star “Thanks for selecting to clean the lift shaft, purge will begin in 5…4…3…2…
beds with ferromagnetic parts
part of a complete breakfast
Rich in iron?
I’d say
I hope no one is in that bed!!
There was, and they’ll never overdo their iron supplements again.
…and that’s the last time s/he’ll swallow a sword for a bet
Pork swords rarely contain metal, and that was a payment not a bet :p
*DOING!*
*Takes the uber-magnet*
*Hold it in hands and aim out of window*
*Turns on*
- Waiting to see what happens –
(I’m evil)
People say goodbye to your piercings. ^.^
Ah.. So that’s where they went. I thought I’d just lost them all…
That must have been the piercing scream I just heard.
Bit of a navel broadside incoming!!!
Septum? It nearly killed him!
Now who brought the bed inside the room? Names!
Whomever it was I am sure is in big trouble!
and little johnny from the make-a-wish foundation realized that his wish had gone horribly horribly wrong….
Well Johnny did wish for the ride of his life…
Is this the bed they train astronauts in?
If that’s what it’s like going into space, I don’t wanna be an astronaut.
But it’s floaty light!
Mine’s the bed they train astronauts in!
*circles Uranus*
*finds a clingon*
By Jupiter! That’s a big ring you sat urn.
thank you! you should check out the chocolate star sometime
*ringsqueeze!*
that thing ate my family
ooh me hips!
ooh me hops!
*chases rats out of brewery*
*lies on the floor and hopes they scurry in*
If someone cut a hole in that thing, it would be a nomnom fail.
Hmmm…So this is what they do when they think nobody’s watching.
Sounds so “attractive” but the hospitals disallow this giant magnet.
pac -a- man ftw!
*flips switch*
*clang*
this reminds me of my former science (physics??) teacher: a classmate told me that he zapped his laptop and the beamer which was connected with the laptop with a high voltage-generator. (question: german “Bandgenerator”= English: ??? ; plz reply the answer!!)
That would be a Van-de-Graaff generator.
OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM
I messed with the magnetism, but I will never tell…hehehehe.
LOOK MOMMY THE BEDS ARE MAKING BABIES!!
Oooo I see twins.
what will you name them?
If they’re mattresses – Zem & Zem.
If you were Michael Jackson, you could name one “Blanket.”
Great… I have to get an MRI an a couple weeks. This is not helping me much…
You could always have a CT and get bombarded with many times more radiation than you would in a simple X-Ray. Any metal near the machine just means you’ll have to get scanned again. Of course, the CT might not be as accurate, depending on what ails you, but whatevz.
I’m getting one in a few hours because my doctor can’t request an MRI. The contrast dye has a common side effect that makes one feel like they’ve wet themself. It’ll be my first time with the dye – fun!
I’m actually allergic to gadolinium IV contrast dye. I have to have MRIs using it anyway. I take prophylactics starting several hours beforehand to counteract the whole death thing.
ROBOT GOATSE
I work at a hospital that will go unnamed for soon to be obvious reasons. A few years back we had a bit of an accident with an MRI machine, not with a bed though, just an oxygen tank. Sadly, the oxygen tank hit the patient it was feeding oxygen to squarely in the skull. I’m sure I don’t have to explain the end result.
I’ll assume that the ex-patient’s family now OWN the hospital? They make non-ferrous Oxygen bottles for that specific purpose goo for short-term use. As stated up higher I’ve dealt with MRI Scanners and experienced their awesome magnetic field. A small 18 inch oxy bottle would take at least two guys to drag it out of the bore of a MRI. I can imagine the dent it put in the patient’s head
I the factory training class we once played with a 3/4″ steel ball bearing that wasn’t a breeze just to reach in and pull out. Putting it at the end of the patient table, it would roll about 1 foot then just shoot to the center. It was also a great way to find out how cheap your “gold” or “silver” jewelry, was, if it got tugged any, it was crap!
God. The oxygen tank must’ve shoot through the MRI like a cannon ball.
I work for an eye dr and I was recently told by a technician who works with MRI that in asking patients about metal parts in body, they ask about eye injuries. She says that if they find they still have metal in their eyes from foreign metal bodies (common, tiny pieces might be left embedded under tissue — difficult to dig out – can cause more harm to dig out than leave in when not on surface) that they do x-ray instead, because their eyeballs can be pulled out.
Is she telling the truth?
No. When You’re in the MRI, the magnetic field is all around you. The metal objects would not be pulled out of the body.
What will happen is the item will be pulled in every direction at once, causing it to vibrate and get extremely hot.
So. It won’t yank out the eye, but it will HURT LIKE HELL. So, no metal in an MRI machine.
Actually, the eye doesnt form scar tissue, so it is possible for ferromagnetic materials (metal shards or whatever) in the eye to be moved by the magnet, which could be very very bad for the patient.
As a radiographer (x-ray tech) I frequently do orbital x-rays on patients to screen for metal in the eyes , if they have a history of metalworking or something similar.
May I remind the doctors that even though the healthcare overhaul might be a bad idea, and even though it’s not fair that Julia Roberts makes insane amounts of money (along with the rest of the bunch), Julia Roberts works in the private sector i.e. Obama can’t touch that… Unless it’s paid for by taxpayers and the government (the public sector),Obama can’t do anything except maybe make them pay moretaxes, but when e does that he’s still an a-hole, so he can’t win either way! You can’t hold him responsible for previous presidents’ frack-ups…
After reading the replies i must say there is a whole lot of miss information being passed about!! It is more dangerous to believe many of these responses than to have an MRI scan!! If you don’t know what your talking about than you should keep your opinions to yourself. The best place to get accurate information about MRI’s is the senior MRI technologist at a hospital of MRI clinic.
Doctors rarely run MRI scanners they are generally smart enough to let their MRI techs do their job. Their was a young boy killed in an MRI scanner many years ago when an Anesthesiologist carried a steel O2 tank too close to the MRI scanner.
There have not been several deaths this year with MRI being the cause.
Not all metal is dangerous in the MRI environment.
To draw the Obama plan into this discussion is so completely fallacious
anyone doing so should have their heads MRIed, notice I made no mention of brains!@!!
TLDR: Let the techs run the tech and keep items with magnetic properties away.
By the way, I like MRI’s. They put me to sleep.
I’m not a Dr. or an MRI tech, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express…….
This picture above happened in Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. There was no patient on the bed at the time; an EVS worked moved it into the room while cleaning the hallway outside.
What I would give to be there while the MRI nommed on the bed.
damn theres a person in there!
I almost got my belt pulled off by an MRI. I emptied my pockets, but forgot about my buckle. My back was to the machine, so it was pressing down on my belly. It felt so weird.
nom nom nom
Man that sounds way too long! I do MRI scans for a living (and definitely am not a doctor) and we don’t even come that close to 2 hours scanning all the way from the cervical spine (neck) to the lumbar (lower back). A weird thing that happened one day was a patient complaining about not being in the scanner long enough.
Send them over to my .3 open! That’ll change their mind!
This reminds me of a story from my undergrad institution. One night someone was doing NMR work and left the instrument on with the room unlocked while they were away. An unfortunate cleaning lady went into the room with a metal mop bucket… which proceeded to roll halfway across the room and then FLY into the instrument. The poor woman ran out of the building screaming and cursing about demons; she refused to ever clean in that building again, claiming that it was haunted.
I put together a presentation for work on MRI safety hazards. It was amazing the crap that gets pulled into the machine when people aren’t careful. Some cop had a .45 nommed by a scanner and the gun discharged.
1) doctors never do the mris, xrays, or cts. the techs such as myself do. mris will cause pacemakers to not function anymore, thus why they are never used in mri machines. and not all metal in the body is bad. just depends on the location, how long its been there, what kind of metal, etc.
2) im guessing (and really hoping) that there was no patient on this bed at the time. being that the mattress is stripped and people wouldnt be in a good enough mood to take a picture of it. and whomever was responsible for that definatly lost thier job and /or license.
since when do trained doctors do mri exams. isnt that what TRAINED rad techs are for? just wondering.
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i dont think ill be able to have my next MRI ill be laughing too hard
MRI Win!