<Li> Ruckly: A hell - raising patient who challenges the rules until the Big Nurse authorizes his lobotomy . After the lobotomy, he sits and stares at a picture of his wife, and occasionally screams profanities . </Li> <Li> Ellis: Ellis was put in a vegetative state by electroshock therapy . He stands against the wall in a disturbing messianic position with arms outstretched . </Li> <Li> Pete Bancini: Bancini suffered brain damage at birth but managed to hold down simple jobs, such as a switch operator on a lightly - used railroad branch line, until the switches were automated and he lost his job, after which he was institutionalized . The Chief remembers how once, and only once, he lashed out violently against the aides, telling the other patients that he was a living miscarriage, born dead . </Li> <Li> Rawler: A patient on the Disturbed ward, above the main ward, who says nothing but "loo, loo, loo!" all day and tries to run up the walls . One night, Rawler castrates himself while sitting on the toilet and bleeds to death before anyone realizes what he has done . </Li>

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