LARRY: I've failed you as a doctor, but as a man I can succeed. Let me show you what I mean.
MOLLIE: I don't like it but what can I do? The wards gotta look nice…when a patient won't make her bed or help with the sweeping, there's nothing like a “shock treatment” to calm her down.
ALTHEA: I look like a porcelain figurine. Too fragile to handle, But I'm not. If I ever get a chance to go to bed with our Dr. MacLeod, he'll never forget it, believe me.
THESE ARE THE CARETAKERS
These are the doctors, attendants, and nurses who work behind the barred windows and locked doors of a state hospital. HERE IS THEIR STORY -- a giant of a novel about that closed in world where the shocking event it the normal event and single courage becomes extraordinary heroism.
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