This passage begins with Norah explaining the second half of her stint at St. Lukes. She explains that she realizes tht a one hour day pass isn't long enough to get her full exercise so she goes and asks for a two hour pass. Surprisingly, something that would never happen at Meriwether, her request is granted and the doctors give her a two hour day pass. With this she was not only able to get in her full desired workout but she was able to get a real full meal with a couple very satisfying beers. She has a meeting with "Magic Doc" and he lets her know that because she is going on two hour day passes that her insurance company will no longer cover her stay at St. Lukes. They both vent about the drug companies pushing unnecessary medication on some patients and Norah expresses how much better this doctor is than the doctors at Meriwether.
Her departure from St. Lukes was far more smooth and orderly than her departure from Meriwether. She is not forced to wait for unwanted perscriptions to be filled and is not forced to sit and wait for her release. The staff is friendly and courtious throughout her departure, just as they had been for the duration of her stay. They gave her taxi vouchers to get into town and then another one to get to the airport. Upon her final release she expresses her overall appreciation for the way Magic Doc treated her. His nondependance on perscription medication and the fact that it seemed like he actually cared seperated him from the other doctors she had dealt with in the past.
She ends the passage by comparing her stays in both Meriwether and St. Lukes. Even though the facilities and ammenities they were granted at St. Lukes were much better, the price tag on the stay at both facilities was virtually the same. She claimed that the approach at St. Lukes was much more effective but was still far from perfect. She thought it simply provided a break from a person's normally hectic life. It was an avenue that she could take to get away from everything and just pause her life for 10 days. It wasn't totally effective, it wasn't going to be a magical cure for mental illness. She decided she needed to enter one final mental facility, one that offered a different approach "from the locked-ward" (199). The passage ends with her finding a final hospital that takes a different approach, Mobious Group, that she will enter for a two week period.
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