Officials in Wisconsin found a series of failures and federal violations at a nursing home where a renegade nurse cut off a man’s foot without his consent and wanted to have it stuffed in her family’s taxidermy shop and put on display to warn children to “wear your boots” in cold weather.
I won’t pull any other quotes from this piece, but I will provide a warning: The descriptions of this case are gruesome, but not gratuitous. Please avoid if that will be too upsetting.
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Hopefully further scrutiny of this facility can lead to better outcomes, but I suspect that despite it being a non-profit, the executives are paid well, leaving little remaining to be used for care. Ultimately, I think this is another example of a service being important enough that it should not be left in the hands of private enterprises.