Edward Lopez
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2/12/17
Patricia Bath
Not many people know what a “Laserphaco probe” is. It sounds as if it was from a science fiction movie, but it is not. It was invented by Patricia Bath. It was made to remove cataracts. Her early life was hard, mainly because she lived through segregation.
Patricia Bath was born on November 4, 1942, in Harlem, New York. Her parents are Rupert Bath and Gladys Bath. She developed an interest in science at a young age. She went to Charles Evans Hughes High school and served as the editor for the school’s science paper. AT the time of 1959, she was selected among the many students to attend a summer program at Yeshiva University, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. When she was 16 years old, she worked on researching cancer. She graduated highschool in 2 ½ years and she was on her way to college.
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Afterwards, she enrolled in medical school in Howard University, in Washington D.C. She got a job as an intern in Harlem Hospital. A year later, she accepted a fellowship in Columbia University. She did research and found out that black people were eight times more likely to suffer from blindness from a result of glaucoma, than white
After graduating from college she taught at a female college in Danville, Kentucky. In 1871, she moved to Cartersville, Georgia where she opened a female high school along with her friend Anna Safford. While in Georgia she joined the First Baptist church and ministered to underprivileged families in Bartow County. While she was ministering to these families she knew that she wanted to do more. She wanted to explore other countries around the world; she wanted to know if they had the same opportunity as her to hear the
She graduated from high school after only two years. She then went to Hunter College, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in 1964. Afterwards, Bath attended Howard University to get her medical degree. She graduated with honors in 1968, and soon afterwards accepted an internship at Harlem Hospital. The next year, she
Teachers College and at the District of Columbia Teachers College for which she also served as
This African-American female pioneer made history becoming the first black woman to complete a residency in ophthalmology. She was also the first female faculty member in the Department of Ophthalmology at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute. She also contributed in the co-founding of the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness. This innovator helped create the Ophthalmology Residency Training program at UCLA-Drew, becoming the first woman in the nation to hold the position as a chair person. One of her most world-renown projects were inventing the Laserphaco Probe, reshaping how the world saw cataracts.
She first wanted to be an internist, but it changed when she became interested in neurosurgery. But that path was where people told her not to do, so she encountered difficulties obtaining the internship. But she refused to give up; she was then accepted as a surgical intern at the Yale-New Have Hospital. She went there after graduating, cum laude, from medical school in 1975.
it out of Baltimore City. Despite being a teenage mother, she made it into John Hopkins
In 1980 she graduated from Brown University with an honorary degree she began her career as a labor organizer that organize low workers in janitorial industries. She went across the country, organizing garment workers in south Texas, hotel workers in New Orleans, and janitors in Los Angeles In 1985 she became a leader for Justice for Janitor. As a leader she fought for every know week worker to
legislature, and she was the first African American woman surgeon in the South. Her internship,
She also discovered through her research that African Americans were twice as likely to suffer from blindness as other patients to which she
She was the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives and the first African American woman to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. She originally wanted to attend the University of Texas but since it was so segregated she don’t not get admitted and chose Texas Southern University, majoring in political science and history.
When she came out to California she became a young adult at the age of 24, and was granted a job at Berkeley College as a teacher assistant in the science, and math department. She was able to find long term friends, and get in touch with her being an activist, strong mother, and a liberal fighter. She got involved with supporting her Black students anyway she could,
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