accused of amputating a hospice patient's frostbitten foot without his consent and without doctor's orders pleaded not guilty Thursday. The complaint says a Pierce County medical examiner contacted authorities in June after conducting an autopsy on a man whose foot wasn't attached to his body but was instead "lying beside him. Administrators of the nursing home agreed that it was outside of the scope of Brown's practice to conduct such a procedure and a doctor's order was necessary prior to any amputation