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Episode 121: Therac-25

Well There‘s Your Problem

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MRI Machines - The Missile Effect

This is why the MRI machines have the big lockable door and the, and everything in there is plastic. If there is a crash call, the separate sort of plastic things that they have to kind of grab because missile effect. The time they killed a kid in an MRI because he like went into cardiac arrest and there's on brought in a metal oxygen tank that then got fired across the room, killing the patient. This is what happens when we don't do enough radiation safety as part of my course. And so you know, I had an MRI once and it was fine. You know why? Because I knew I could easily get out of that hole. Why don't you? Yes

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