Word: glaucoma
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...successful treatment of many diseases. Others feel that screening is economically impractical. But Dr. Marvin Klein, who runs Checkup, a private, computerized diagnostic center in Chicago, offers evidence that the process can pay. By screening members of a union that subscribed to his service, he uncovered signs of glaucoma, a serious eye disease, in six. Two of the patients would have gone blind without prompt treatment. The projected cost of supporting the two men for the rest of their lives, if they had lost their sight, equaled the cost of Checkup's entire operation for five years...