Nurse pleads not guilty to amputating hospice patient’s foot without consent

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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 lawyer for 38-year-old Mary K Brown, of Durand, Wisconsin, entered pleas of not guilty for her to charges of mayhem, physical abuse of an elderly person and intentionally abusing a patient, causing great bodily harm, WEAU-TV and WQOW-TV reported.