Dan went exploring alone and he found (or possibly hallucinated) an operating theater. And he's being really judgmental about it.
He's comparing it to a stadium, saying that it's like people are being amused by surgery, but that's not what operating theaters are about. Operating theaters are to teach people how to perform life-altering surgeries, which is especially important in unexplored fields, like mental health was in the 1950s. They're for science, not sport.
I just found this interpretation really harmful. Almost offensive. It's valuing the privacy of one over the safety and health of many. I would get the argument if they were harming someone for teaching, or if the person having the operation didn't want the operation, but the people would have gotten the operations regardless of whether or not people were paying attention and trying to learn.
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