Patricia Bath casually helping millions see again

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• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Bath

  Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an African American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first woman to lead a postgraduate training program in ophthalmology, and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center. Bath was the first African-American to serve as a resident in ophthalmology at New York University. She was also the first African-American woman to serve on staff as a surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center.

  Bath’s research showed that blindness, especially caused by glaucoma, was more prevalent among Black Americans than the general population. In 1976, she co-founded the nonprofit American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in Washington, D.C., to advance a program of “community ophthalmology” that would expand the availability of treatment for, education about, and prevention of eye diseases to medically underserved populations.[1]

  In the 1980s, Bath’s development of the laserphaco probe led to safer and more precise cataract surgery. With the device, she became the first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose.[2]

  Now that’s what I call a doctor with vision!

  Eh? Eh?

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sure. Take it.

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  • ephrin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Now that’s what I call a doctor with vision!

    10/10, no notes.

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    • nagaram@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      20/20

      You mean?

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