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A US nurse accused of amputating a hospice patient’s frostbitten foot without his consent and without doctors’ orders has pleaded not guilty.
A attorney for 38-year-outmoded Mary K Brown, of Durand, Wisconsin, entered pleas of not guilty for her to charges of mayhem, bodily abuse of an aged person and deliberately abusing a patient, causing huge bodily hurt, WEAU-TV and WQOW-TV reported.
After she reduce off the person’s handsome foot on Could 27, Brown told colleagues she wished to visual show unit it at her family’s taxidermy shop with a designate that talked about: “Wear your boots formative years,” in accordance to charges filed in Pierce County.
The amputation came about on Could 27, and inside about every week the 62-year-outmoded man was dumb.
A prison criticism gave no indication the amputation was a factor in his death.
In accordance to the criticism, the person was admitted to Spring Valley Neatly being and Rehab Centre, where Brown worked on the time, after he fell at his dwelling in March.
The warmth in his dwelling was not changed into on, and he had frostbite on every toes, leaving the tissue necrotic. His handsome foot remained connected to his leg by a tendon and roughly 2in of pores and skin.
Brown is not allowed to work in any capability as a caregiver, whether or not employed or as a volunteer, on-line court docket records say.
She not works at Spring Valley.
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