Because of my diabetes, which is very tightly controlled thanks to insurance and my awareness, I visited my retina specialist every 6 months for 14 years before diagnosis. Yet, the good doctor's keen eyes never caught my disease. Unfortunately so.
The good news is that the doctor confirmed my diagnosis when I informed her about it. It never occurred to me at the time that I should have asked her why she hadn't discovered that sooner.
Obviously, the medical community had this information for quite some time.
One can hardly blame a retinal specialist for failing to implement this preliminary research:
"Initial results suggest that computer algorithms are able to use these fundus images to distinguish Parkinson’s patients from healthy controls with an accuracy upward of 70 percent."
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