Nurse Admits Amputating Man’s Foot Without Permission
By: | Published: 2025-07-11 04:34:00 | Source: www.huffpost.com
A Wisconsin nurse has pleaded no contest to negligently abusing a patient after she amputated a man’s foot without his permission.
Mary K. Brown’s plea earlier this week in a Pierce County courtroom means that two felony charges against her will be dismissed: physical abuse of an elder person intentionally causing great bodily harm, and mayhem. She had previously pleaded not guilty.
In May 2022, Brown was employed as a nurse at a senior living home in Spring Valley, where Doug McFarland, 62, was being treated after a fall in his home a few months earlier.
McFarland had contracted severe frostbite in his feet, which both became necrotic, and had reportedly been moved to hospice care, according to ABC affiliate KSTP.
Court documents say that Brown referred to the McFarland’s lower…