the hargrave eye center presents: patricia bath, an appreciation
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PatriciaBathAMERICANOPHTHALMOLOGIST,SCIENTIST & INVENTOR
an appreciation | by The Hargrave Eye Center
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"Believe in the power of truth...Do not allow your mind to be
imprisoned by majority thinking.Remember that the limits ofscience are not the limits of
imagination. "DR. PATRICIA E. BATH
Patricia Bath became thefirst African American tocomplete a residency inophthalmology in 1973.
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In 1986, Bath invented theLaserphaco Probe toimprove treatment forcataract patients. Two years later, Bathpatented the cataractdevice, becoming the firstAfrican-American femaledoctor to receive amedical patent.
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DR. PATRICIA E. BATH
The first female faculty member in theDepartment of Ophthalmology atUCLA's Jules Stein Eye InstituteCo-founder of the American Institutefor the Prevention of BlindnessNamed a "Pioneer in AcademicMedicine" by Howard University
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Dr. Bath is a living legend with anincomparable legacy .
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"My Black History Month Reporton Dr. Patricia Bath" by Laila
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"eyesight is abasic human
right."
