{"id":16067,"date":"2019-06-25T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T12:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16067"},"modified":"2019-07-26T13:07:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:07:38","slug":"the-scientist-dr-patricia-baths-research-advanced-cataract-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/the-scientist-dr-patricia-baths-research-advanced-cataract-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scientist: Dr. Patricia Bath&#8217;s research advanced cataract surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16025\" style=\"width: 352px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PatriciaBath.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"342\" data-large_image_height=\"400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16025\" class=\"wp-image-16025 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PatriciaBath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PatriciaBath.jpg 342w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PatriciaBath-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Eraka Bath<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On June 13, 2019, I had successful outpatient cataract surgery in my right eye by Dr. Audrey Mok at St. Mary Hospital in Long Beach, Ca. A friend called to check on the surgery and shared some information about Dr. Patricia Bath whose research on lasers advanced cataract surgery.<\/p>\n<h1>Patricia Bath, Inventor of Laser-Based Cataract Treatment, Dies<\/h1>\n<h3>The UCLA ophthalmologist worked to combat blindness in underserved communities.<\/h3>\n<p>Jun 6, 2019<br \/>\nSHAWNA WILLIAMS<\/p>\n<p>Retired University of California, Los Angeles, ophthalmologist Patricia Bath, an inventor whose research on lasers advanced cataract surgery and a physician who strove to prevent blindness, died on May 30. She was 76.<br \/>\nBath became the first African American surgeon at the UCLA medical center and co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a few obstacles but I had to shake it off,\u201d Bath told ABC News last year. \u201cHater-ation, segregation, racism, that\u2019s the noise you have to ignore that and keep your eyes focused on the prize, it\u2019s just like Dr. Martin Luther King said, so that\u2019s what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full article at The-Scientist.com:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/news-opinion\/patricia-bath--inventor-of-laser-based-cataract-treatment--dies-65974\">https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/news-opinion\/patricia-bath&#8211;inventor-of-laser-based-cataract-treatment&#8211;dies-65974 <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 13, 2019, I had successful outpatient cataract surgery in my right eye by Dr. Audrey Mok at St. Mary Hospital in Long Beach, Ca. A friend called to check on the surgery and shared some information about Dr. Patricia Bath whose research on lasers advanced cataract surgery. Patricia Bath, Inventor of Laser-Based Cataract&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[239,240,238,237,236],"class_list":["post-16067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-american-institute-for-the-prevention-of-blindness","tag-cataract","tag-eye-care","tag-health","tag-patricia-bath","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16068,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16067\/revisions\/16068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}