McMurphy's next battle with Ratched concerns allowing the patients to watch the World Series. Because the games are telecast during the ward's non-regulation television viewing time, McMurphy requests that the time be altered. Ratched refuses at first, then allows a vote of the patients.
In his first afternoon group meeting, McMurphy observes how Nurse Ratched pits all the men against one another. McMurphy makes a bet with the guys that he can break Nurse Ratched without destroying himself. After his morning shower, McMurphy shows up in only a towel.
He claims his clothes were stolen. So McMurphy has scored a point against Nurse Ratched. He brings the vote up again at the next meeting.
All the Acutes raise their hands — twenty of them. McMurphy goes around to the Chronics, begging one of them to raise their hand. Bromden pretends to be deaf and dumb and tries to go unnoticed, even though he is six feet seven inches tall. The mental patients, all male, are divided into Acutes, who can be cured, and Chronics, who cannot be cured. They are ruled by Nurse Ratched, a former army nurse who runs the ward with harsh, mechanical precision. During daily Group Meetings, she encourages the Acutes to attack each other in their most vulnerable places, shaming them into submission.
If a patient rebels, he is sent to receive electroshock treatments and sometimes a lobotomy, even though both practices have fallen out of favor with the medical community.
McMurphy swaggers into the ward and introduces himself as a gambling man with a zest for women and cards. The other patients tell him that there is no defying her, because in their eyes she is an all-powerful force. McMurphy makes a bet that he can make Ratched lose her temper within a week. At first, the confrontations between Ratched and McMurphy provide entertainment for the other patients.
Radian Ehlemann Pundit. Can you survive lobotomy? Lobotomy is rarely, if ever, performed today, and if it is, "it's a much more elegant procedure," Lerner said. Anwar Goldbaum Pundit. What does lobotomy do to a person? Psychosurgery is cutting into the brain to form new patterns and rid a patient of delusions, obsessions, nervous tensions and the like. Nirmal Tassinari Pundit. What is a lobotomy operation? Lobotomy , also called prefrontal leukotomy, surgical procedure in which the nerve pathways in a lobe or lobes of the brain are severed from those in other areas.
Widad Graulich Pundit. Why did people get lobotomy? What type of patient was chosen for a lobotomy? Freeman's most common reason for lobotomizing a patient was to treat schizophrenia, especially in patients who had just recently been diagnosed with the disease.
He also used the procedure to treat chronic pain and suicidal depression. Yihui Danowski Teacher. When did lobotomy end?
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