Neck pain led him to Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, China. No one imagined he would end up alone, motionless, trapped inside an MRI tube for nearly six hours.
The doctor marked the scan as finished at 12:10 a.m., while the patient was still inside the machine. The shift changed. The new person in charge never checked whether anyone was still inside. And so, in the silence of an empty hallway, a man waited for hours without anyone remembering he was there.
When they finally found him, the hospital responded: a full medical evaluation, contact with his family, and an internal investigation that confirmed serious failures in the shift-change protocol. Now there is a special team working to make sure no patient ever feels as alone as he did that early morning.
