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Hospice nurse who amputated patient’s foot without permission for use in sickening taxidermy display escapes jail sentence
NY Post ^ | 07/13/2025 | Chris Nesi

Posted on 07/13/2025 1:23:58 PM PDT by DFG

A Wisconsin nurse who amputated a patient’s frostbitten foot without authorization and planned to use it as a ghoulish display in her family’s taxidermy shop was given a sweetheart plea deal in which she’ll serve no time in prison and pay just $443 in court costs.

Mary K. Brown, 40, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of negligently abusing a 62-year-old patient at Spring Valley Senior Living and Healthcare Campus in 2022 for the rogue surgical procedure.

The patient died days later, though no definitive link was made between his death and the amputation, according to a criminal complaint.

She was initially charged with intentionally causing great bodily harm and mayhem and physically abusing an elder person, but the felonies, which could have each carried a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison, were dismissed after pleading guilty to lesser charges.

The victim, Doug McFarland, was being treated for severe frostbite in both feet after suffering a fall in his home. His feet had become necrotic — remaining attached to his leg by only a tendon and two inches of skin — and he was moved to hospice care, according to KSTP.

After cutting off his right foot — which she referred to as “mummy feet” — she told nursing home colleagues she planned to preserve the foot and display it in a taxidermy shop owned by her family as a graphic warning about the dangers of frostbite.

She planned to display a sign with the foot that said, “Wear your boots, kids,” according to the charges.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chrisnesi; dougmcfarland; frostbite; hospice; marykbrown; newyorkpost; taxidermy; wisconsin
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To: DFG

Despicable.


21 posted on 07/13/2025 1:55:21 PM PDT by jocon307 (DEMOCRATS DELENDA EST)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

You didn’t chop his finger off though, did you?


22 posted on 07/13/2025 1:56:34 PM PDT by jocon307 (DEMOCRATS DELENDA EST)
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To: DFG


Mary K. Brown




23 posted on 07/13/2025 1:58:33 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: DFG

You give them an inch and they take a foot.

24 posted on 07/13/2025 2:03:22 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: DFG

Classic pu$$y pass. The bury a white guy under the jail.


25 posted on 07/13/2025 2:05:42 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: DFG

She probably loves fava beans and Chianti.


26 posted on 07/13/2025 2:06:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: DFG

They walk among us.


27 posted on 07/13/2025 2:10:50 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: wally_bert

“What’s the world coming to?”

I never heard of the comedy movie ‘The Big Bus’.
Looks like good Old School comedy.


28 posted on 07/13/2025 2:26:46 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: All
Curious if any poster to thread had read the posted excerpt.

The foot was necrotic (dead) and held to the leg by one tendon and few inches of skin.

29 posted on 07/13/2025 2:27:25 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: DFG

The hospice nurse isn’t qualified to amputate anything….
Who was the hospice physician?
Where was he between the time he “fell from his home” and he was put in a care center on hospice??
Did he go to ER after fall? Did any physician see him immediately after the fall?
He wasn’t on hospice before he fell.
Something doesn’t make sense here.


30 posted on 07/13/2025 2:32:32 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Ed gein didn’t kill anybody that I’m aware of.

He dug up dead women and cut up their skin to make clothes and furniture


31 posted on 07/13/2025 2:47:02 PM PDT by This_Dude
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To: DFG

bttt


32 posted on 07/13/2025 2:47:48 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: This_Dude

Ed Gein confessed to two killings and suspected on several more.


33 posted on 07/13/2025 2:49:23 PM PDT by Reily
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To: DFG

Hopefully, the poor indigent guy has relatives who will exact more appropriate justice...


34 posted on 07/13/2025 2:50:27 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Reily

I see that. Looks like I spoke too soon, and stand corrected


35 posted on 07/13/2025 2:57:04 PM PDT by This_Dude
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To: DFG

Just when you think there is no Blue State that can enact a a more completely inane ruling like this, one of them proves you wrong.


36 posted on 07/13/2025 3:52:24 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: Deaf Smith

Yep, I read that.


37 posted on 07/13/2025 4:07:01 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: DFG

Misery


38 posted on 07/13/2025 4:08:18 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Trust me...Wisconsin is loaded with potential Ed Geins/Jeffrey Dahmers. I don’t know what it is...it’s a beautuful generally well run state but the populace tends to be on the squirrely side.


39 posted on 07/13/2025 4:31:20 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: DFG

Should be death penalty.


40 posted on 07/13/2025 4:39:16 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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