# Why the hell do I have to get an MRI?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-do-i-have-to-get-an-mri/624248
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 6, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-do-i-have-to-get-an-mri/624248 "2012-06-06T05:43:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-do-i-have-to-get-an-mri/624248/21 "2012-06-14T20:25:11Z")
> [@kanicbird](#):
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> Not according to this:
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> From: [http://people.howstuffworks.com/diamond-thief1.htm](http://people.howstuffworks.com/diamond-thief1.htm)
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> I think you just may need to increase the power to the ‘unsafe’ level setting.
That isn’t correct, I don’t think. _Some_ (not all) diamonds fluoresce under UV light, and what good would that do if someone swallowed them?
Speaking from many years of experience, I’ve yet to see one diamond glow from x-rays. And, unless the stone was covered with quite a bit of crud, and it was large enough, it would probably de difficult to find on a, let’s say, full abdomen x-ray.
eta: That chuck of rock that **Bob Ducca** linked to would definitely show up. Just not the diamond part.
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### Author:  [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-do-i-have-to-get-an-mri/624248/22 "2012-06-14T21:03:41Z")
> [@treis](#):
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> It sounds like a liability waiver/screening form for workers in the hospital. They don’t want you to take an MRI. They want to know your risk level for being around an MRI machine while it is in operation.
This is most likely it. I work in a hospital doing security and I signed a form that sounds like this one. If you are at risk being in/around the magnetic field they want to know about (and so do you!).
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### Author:  [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2012, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-do-i-have-to-get-an-mri/624248/23 "2012-06-15T09:09:52Z")
> [@Enkel](#):
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> Maybe it’s foreplay… first the MRI, then they’ll want a breast exam, a littly ob/gyn… and wham… before you know it, colonoscopy-city… an here you thought you were going to get a salary… but instead, you just got billed.
How can I paste this onto Facebook?
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2012, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-do-i-have-to-get-an-mri/624248/24 "2012-06-15T10:02:46Z")
> [@FrancisCastle](#):
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> This is most likely it. I work in a hospital doing security and I signed a form that sounds like this one. If you are at risk being in/around the magnetic field they want to know about (and so do you!).
I find that kind of funny, as I’ve never had to sign a form about the magnetic field from an NMR.
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2012, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-do-i-have-to-get-an-mri/624248/25 "2012-06-15T10:39:53Z")
> [@](#):
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> I didn’t not hear this
…say what now?
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2012, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-do-i-have-to-get-an-mri/624248/26 "2012-06-15T11:03:24Z")
> [@elbows](#):
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> …say what now?
Someone asked the OP who told him he needed an MRI. He said he wasn’t told that by anyone, and explained he was sent a form.
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