The hospital often subjects the patients to therapeutic meetings with a qualified doctor, and such meetings are goal-based, focusing on the rehabilitation of a specific patient. However, when McMurphy arrives, he notices how flawed these meetings are, and continually desires to change them. In doing so, he makes greater enemies with Nurse Ratched although the other patients support his every action. He interrupts the meetings with relentless and unnecessary questions and individually attempts to stop the institution from imposing itself on those within the ward. Nurse Ratched tries to get the meetings back on track, but McMurphy forces them in a different direction every time— sometimes just to get a laugh out of his fellow patients. Specifically,