Bat Bath Accomplishments

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Dr. Patricia Era Bath, a doctor, inventor, humanitarian, and educator, is a woman of passionate charity. She committed her life to the health sciences with the will to help cure individuals by giving them the basic human sense of sight. In doing this act, she composed the Laserphaco Probe which made the surgery for cataracts easier to operate. She was able to completely patent the device for cataract surgery in 1988 after many difficulties. Her commitment also led her to being a key leader and co-founder to the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness. Throughout her career in the health sciences, she worked as an eye surgeon and also taught at institutions as a professor of ophthalmology. Dr. Bath endured and successfully overcame many hurdles in the scientific community as an inventor, an African-American and a woman. However, she did not want her achievements in the two minority categories to define her, but instead for her work to be praised. Bath once said, "Hopefully, our society will come to that point. Sometimes I want to say to people, just look at my work. . . I've had technological obstacles, scientific obstacles, and obstacles being a woman. Yes, I'm interested in equal opportunities, but my battles are in science." …show more content…

Her parents instilled in her the characteristics of work ethic and independence which guaranteed her what she needed to do great things. She was born on November 4, 1942 in Harlem, New York to Rupert Bath and Gladys Bath. Her father, Rupert Bath was an immigrant from Trinidad who was the first black man to work as a motorman on the subway systems as well as a newspaper columnist and a merchant seaman. His travels as a merchant seaman increased her curiosity and vision of the world outside of the projects of Harlem and also yearned for her to have travel

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