Any Black Women Inventors In The House? - Patricia Bath
In this podcast, we discuss the life and achievements of Dr. Patricia Bath, an influential African American inventor and ophthalmologist. Dr. Bath is best known for inventing the Cataract Laserphaco Probe, a groundbreaking device that revolutionized cataract surgery and restored sight to countless individuals around the world.
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what's going on people not just music podcast
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let's get to it welcome back to another episode
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more black history more black history today i
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have patricia bath patricia bath was born in
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harlem and we're going to become a pioneering
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Ophthalmologist, inventor and academic who is
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known for inventing a tool and procedure for
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the removal of cataracts using a laser beam called
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the laser FACO probe. Bath was born in 1942 in
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New York and was the daughter of the first African
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-American motor man to work in the NYC subway.
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She was showing early interest and ability in
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science at a young age. The passion would drive
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her onwards and upwards. In 1973, Bath became
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first African -American to complete a residency
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in ophthalmology. She was the first woman ophthalmologist
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to be appointed to the faculty of University
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of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine.
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Jewel Stein Eye Institute and the first woman
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to chair an ophthalmology residency program in
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the United States. And let me say this. First
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off, if you thought about being an inventor,
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please be an inventor. We have enough. And I
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repeat, we have enough content creators. We don't
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need any more content creators. Let's get to
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a peak with this. And I was really speaking to
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us black folk. OK, there is more to. the world
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than what you can do with this cell phone okay
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please just find you something else to do it
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is a lot more to do other than create content
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inventors are still needed it's still a thing
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to be a scientist a chemist a mathematician we
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have all these other things that we can do okay
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it's this this this please let's let's move around
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some please all right please
