Doctors take parking spaces reserved for sick dialysis patients

[Ian David]

Doctors take spaces reserved for sick

By Mike Underwood, Enterprise staff writer

STOUGHTON — An angry husband has exposed how doctors are among offenders stealing parking spaces reserved for dialysis patients at a treatment center.

A disgusted George Copeland, 53, says four spaces next to the entrance of the Goddard Brockton Kidney Center, where his wife Barbara receives dialysis treatment, are being regularly taken by non-dialysis patients.

“I have seen prescription drug salespeople and I know that even doctors are parking there. These are educated people who should know better, but they just don't seem to care,” he fumed.

His claims were backed by the Sumner Street center whose bosses have had to confront doctors caught misusing the reserved spaces, which are clearly posted “For Dialysis Patients Only.”

Copeland, a retired cab driver who is battling cancer himself, takes Barbara Copeland, 64, for dialysis at the center three times a week and is fed up hunting for alternative parking.

“This has been going on for years but it has never been addressed. Dialysis patients and caregivers are fed up with it. We are talking about sick people who have to walk around a busy parking lot with canes, wheelchairs and oxygen tanks,” he said.



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