Wisconsin
Trial begins Tuesday for Wisconsin woman who amputated patient’s foot, without permission, to allegedly put in taxidermy shop
A small-town courthouse in western Wisconsin might be within the media highlight this week, as a nurse seems in court docket for amputating a affected person’s foot — although there’s fairly a bit extra to the story than that.
Mary Brown of Durand is scheduled for a listening to earlier than a Pierce County choose Tuesday, on a cost of elder abuse for slicing off the foot of a frostbite affected person with out his permission.
The person died days after the amputation.
Past that, nevertheless, Brown reportedly instructed others that she needed to show the foot at her household’s taxidermy store.
The state nursing board has been wanting into the incident, and media firms from Milwaukee and St. Paul are anticipated to attend the court docket listening to.