Show Teamsters Harness Computer to Pinpoint Job Related Diseases The Teamsters Union has joined with some of the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's leading medical experts to study related job-related diseases and industrial deaths Joining in the study are such nationally known doctors as Charles Hufnagel chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of surgery and chief of cardiac surgery at Georgetown Georgetown Georgetown George George- town University Hospital Michael Debakey vice president president president dent and chairman of cardiac surgery at Baylor Medical School and Hospital and Ted Diethrich director of the Arizona Heart Institute Also supporting the study is a consortium of experts at both Harvard Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital By collecting mortality- mortality morbidity data from members members' members members' members members' mem mem- bers' bers health insurance records the Teamsters and the Medical Medical Medical Med Med- ical Advisory staff named above hope to discover trends of disease and nd possible work environment problems which go undetected because no adequate statistics are avail avail- able Such data will be programmed programmed programmed pro pro- into the Teamsters Teamsters' huge computer bank in Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington DC D.C. and the findings made available to the medical experts for study tudy Teamster President Frank E. E Fitzsimmons says he is hopeful this study will lay laythe laythe laythe the groundwork for term long-term mortality morbidity studies which will be beneficial to the health of the entire American American American Amer Amer- ican public |