[post_page_title]Dr. Patricia Bath: First African-American woman to get a medical patent[/post_page_title]
There are a lot of firsts that Dr. Patricia Bath achieved throughout her career. Dr. Bath completed her residency in ophthalmology at New York University and was the first African-American to do so. She then observed a higher rate of blindness in African-American people than that of caucasians, prompting her to create her initiative, community ophthalmology. She later went on to design a device that would remove cataracts from eyes, which is called laserphaco probe.
