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Call me crazy but maybe these MRI clinics should have walk thru metal detectors installed. Schools have them now, why wouldn't they?
Fun fact: Lots of metals aren't detected by those. I have a single piece of body jewelry that weighs over half a pound, and it's never been picked up by either walk-thru or hand wand metal detectors. Maybe they set the sensitivity too low, but even airports have missed that piece of jewelry (prior to back-scatter x-rays, etc.). I've worn it through two MRIs, along with all of my other piercings, and had zero problems.
Maybe it's not a metal that's ferrous?
As far as my own body jewelry goes, that's 100% it.
(And, if you want to be paranoid, just think: non-ferrous metals aren't going to show up on airport metal detectors either. Nor do ceramics, although ceramic metal matrices do. They'll show up on x-rays, but last I knew you could opt out of x-rays, and the pat down that the TSA does is NOT as thorough as they think it is.)