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A former Wisconsin nurse faces two felony charges for abuse of an elder person and mayhem after she allegedly cut off a dying patient’s foot without his consent.
According to a criminal complaint, a Pierce County, Wis. medical examiner flagged an autopsy to authorities because a foot had been removed from a body he was supposed to examine.
It was later determined that before he died, the victim was under the care of 38-year-old Mary K. Brown, a Durand, Wis. resident and Spring Valley Health and Rehab Center nurse. The complaint indicates the man became a patient at the nursing home where Brown worked in March 2022 because tissue in his feet had died from severe frostbite, a condition called necrosis.
Some of Brown’s coworkers told investigators they had witnessed the man’s foot still attached to his body by several inches of tissue on the morning of May 27, then that night, Brown fully amputated his foot.
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According to a criminal complaint, a Pierce County, Wis. medical examiner flagged an autopsy to authorities because a foot had been removed from a body he was supposed to examine.
It was later determined that before he died, the victim was under the care of 38-year-old Mary K. Brown, a Durand, Wis. resident and Spring Valley Health and Rehab Center nurse. The complaint indicates the man became a patient at the nursing home where Brown worked in March 2022 because tissue in his feet had died from severe frostbite, a condition called necrosis.
Some of Brown’s coworkers told investigators they had witnessed the man’s foot still attached to his body by several inches of tissue on the morning of May 27, then that night, Brown fully amputated his foot.
Wisconsin nurse accused of amputating patient's foot without permission
A Wisconsin nurse faces two felony charges for abuse of an elder person and mayhem after she allegedly cut off a dying patient’s foot without his consent.
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