The Top 21: Our List of Outstanding Black Doctors
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MadameNoire
Dr. Patricia Bath is an ophthalmologist with a historic career. She’s recognized as the first black American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose. Granted in 1988 the patent covered an “apparatus for ablating and removing cataract lenses,” a version of a device designed to remove cataracts with a fiber-optic laser. Because of her invention sight has been restored for countless people, some of whom had experienced blindness for as much as three decades. The Harlem native has held positions at Howard University, St. George’s University in Grenada and UCLA.
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