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Black History 365 | # 36 - Dr. Patricia Bath

March 18, 2024

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“I was not seeking to be the first, I was only attempting to do my thing,” are the words Dr. Bath uses to describe her history…well at least what her mindframe was while in the thick of it. She is the inventor of cataract laser eye surgery while working for the company Laserphaco. This discovery is widely credited as Laserphaco eye surgery. You’ll find that companies like to put their names on things. It’s all business. Now, upon explaining to the director what she achieved, she was met with a “You didn’t do that, that’s impossible.” She was met with anger, and not acceptance from her scientific breakthrough. Now the company that has been most successful doing laser eye surgery is the company LASIK. Dr. Bath conceived the laser eye device in 1981. If you search for the inventor of laser eye surgery, you’ll find that the LASIK company will credit Gholam A. Peyman as the inventor of LASIK eye surgery, which is in fact, laser eye surgery. And he got his patent for his version after Dr. Bath’s discovery in 1989. Thank you Dr. Bath.

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