The lawyer allegedly brought in a concealed weapon even though he was asked to remove all metallic objects before entering the room with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine.
I'll share a personal experience - once I was fiddling around with a patient's IV while he was on the MR scanner table. My head came within ~1 foot of the bore of the scanner at some point, and I could feel my glasses getting pulled off my face. Thankfully I snapped my head back and nothing ever came of it.
You often can. I don't know what the law is like in Brazil, but in many places you can file a claim against a deceased person's estate for damages caused by that person, within a certain period.
I just had an MRI 3 weeks ago and the tech asked me about 4 times if I was sure I took off all metal on my body and I kept saying I was positive. He eventually told me that people seem to think their metal bra hooks or metal eyelets on their shoes "don't count" for whatever reason. I told him I was still positive I had no metal because I had planned to be in an MRI that day and wore appropriate clothing, but apparently some people just don't get it that it's everything.
Guessing the gun was a glock or something, which has a body that is not metal. So he thought it was safe. Except the firing pin is metal, so that'd be a problem...
"It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn't show up on your airport X-ray machines here and it costs more than what you make in a month!" - Die Hard
Plenty of components of a glock are made out of metal, the entire upper slide of a glock is metal, components in the magazine, trigger mechanism, etc are as well.
Not just the firing pin, but the side, barrel, and plenty of other parts on a Glock are not just metal but steel. The frame is the only thing that's plastic.
What if the machine had AI, became sentient, and he had to shoot his way out. These things can happen. We have to stay prepared! Actually, how do we know that didn't happen? Maybe the machine knew it was in danger from the alpha male lawyer and IT pulled the trigger using its magnetic magic!!!
Why don’t hospitals install walk through metal detectors you have to go through to get in the room? Like airports have before you can get to the terminal.
I don't know... Even a metal detector wand? What can that cost? I see them at concert venues and ballparks. MRIs are notoriously expensive and they can be borked when hit by metal. I feel like safety precautions (for people and for cost savings) would far out weigh the cost of metal detectors. And like I said, metal detecting wands are probably super cheap.