Remembering Dr. Patricia Bath for Women’s History Month: Ophthalmologist, inventor and humanitarian with many firsts

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  • Richard J. Barohn MD

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https://doi.org/10.17161/rrnmf.v2i3.15291

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Teenage Scientist is Named one of the Ten Young Women of the Year. Atlanta Daily World.

December 31, 1960

Bath, Patricia. Rational for a program in community Opthalmology. Natl Med Assoc 71

;71:145-148

Bath PE. Laserphaco: an introduction and review. Ophthalmic Laser Therapy 1988;3:75-82

US patent 4744360. “Apparatus for a lasting and removing cataract lenses” Issued May 17,

Mosca, Julia Finley (2017). The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: the Story of Dr Patricia Bath

(Amazing Scientist). The Innovation Press. ISBN 9781943147311

Trailblazers and Lost Einsteins: Women Inventors and the Future of American Innovation.

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Www.judiciary.senate.gov. Retrieved May 9,

https://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/women-physicians#page=13

Time Magazine: Firsts: Women who are Changing the World: The INVENTOR: Patricia Bath:

First Person to Invent and demonstrate Laserphaco cataract surgery, 2017 Time Magazine

https://abc7.com/dr-patricia-bath-doctor-eyes-surgery/10321774/

2 images; one of a man in a backwards baseball cap on a cell phone, and a second image of a woman on a cell phone

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2021-08-03

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2021)

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What’s on your Mind: Commentaries

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Barohn, R. J. . (2021). Remembering Dr. Patricia Bath for Women’s History Month: Ophthalmologist, inventor and humanitarian with many firsts. RRNMF Neuromuscular Journal, 2(3), 5-6. https://doi.org/10.17161/rrnmf.v2i3.15291