Gately's hospital visitors (p. 820)
Thrust said he summoned every Oreida of self-control sobriety’d blessed him with and had quietly taken Lenz out of the office into the special Disabled Bedroom next door and over the sound of Burt F. Smith coughing up little pieces of lung in his sleep he said he’d real controlledly given Lenz the choice of voluntarily resigning his Ennet residency on the spot or submitting to a spot-urine and a room-search and everything like that […]
Context
The House's disability infrastructure as plot-furniture: the "special Disabled Bedroom" next to the office, occupied by handless Burt F. Smith coughing up pieces of lung in his sleep, becomes the interrogation room where Lenz gets his ultimatum. ("Oreida" is the Thrust-register malaprop for "iota," as written.)