Moroni:
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.
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Quick search...he killed at least 2.
Right next door in Minnesota a female Dem judge released a retarded Somali man (not sure of his citizenship status) who had tried to kidnap a little girl.
He will serve no jail time and will be reunited with the community due to his metal condition.
Mental…
What she did was tasteless and beyond her position to make that decision, but the primary physician who allowed the dead lump to remain attached to the poor guy is the one who should have been in court for malpractice and negligence.
That foot staying on him too long is most likely the cause of death, where the body had a circulatory dead end to struggle with while overtaxing the heart.
She probably got a pair of scissors and cut the few inches of dead skin and the tendon pulled off the bone.
The smell of the dead foot must have been pretty bad.
Given the state of the wound this seems to fall more on the side of debraidment than amputation. She should still have brought him in for a Surgeon to do the procedure, If she had documented what she was doing and treated the foot as medical waste instead of a display trophy there probably would not have been much of an issue.
The young guy was in hospice care, there would not be any surgeons or ER care for his feet at that time.
From the looks of that woman she may have just been hungry.
I did say to bring him in to a surgeon, not bring the surgeon to him. More for forms sake to protect her Nursing license as he was dying.
Amputation would seem to be indicated here. The taxidermy part is sick ...
And the rules of hospice care is that there will be no medical intervention.
No amber lamps or ER.
This forum is swamped with morons who only read headlines and then post kneejerk reactions ...
I was the first.
Moroni:
I would only say doctors or the family's input might have saved her some legal bills and protected her nursing license.
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