Thank you, Ginger. I agree, in part. The mind-boggling parts of this for us are: 1.We had no warning - not at the time of the pacemaker implant. All the risks and legal disclosures....we were never told that although this device was "MRI compatible," Mayo would decline to sign-off for another MRI center; and 2. Barrows MRI assures me that not only is the form a standard form, a standard practice, but that this is the FIRST flat refusal they have received from any medical group. Sometimes there is reluctance, she said, and sometimes there is delay - but the doctors sign. We'll see how this plays out. It might indeed be an outcome he cannot live with. Literally.