Talk:Patricia Bath

message: i just cleaned up the page and brought it up to standards. while some more sources would be nice, the article is clean and no longer convoluted and unprofessional.
--Dcowboys3109 (talk) 20:38, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow ! 2603:8001:E7F0:320:610B:B159:4BA8:B227 (talk) 03:11, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: cleanup

message: Our changes for this article are to add more detail about Bath's childhood and influence. Her family and history is such an important part of her accomplishments and we think more details should be included that emphasis her full story. We would like to include more details about her mother and relationship with her as well as her introduction to science. The part of her life the influenced her to want to be in the sciences is very important for not only her, but the history of women and people of color. Also, we would like to add more information about her life now such as about her children and a more detailed list of the awards she has won. Our group has already found several websites that are more informative of her life and plan using those sites as sources.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blairebeavers25 (talk • contribs) 01:34, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outline for WGSST 

message: Looked at this source and can't find the article.  Would be good to put in a page number.   7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:59, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Page number for citation

message: Dr. Bath's name came up when I googled "who invented laser eye surgery."  But the "laserphaco probe" doesn't even have its own Wikipedia article, so regrettably I have to conclude that it's not a very notable medical device. If I'm wrong about that, would somebody please correct the oversight that is the lack of an article about the laserphaco probe. 75.163.197.166 (talk) 22:51, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no particular threshold of notability in regard to content within an article. What we're looking for is relevance and significance and that may be simply to the subject, not the world at large.  So, even if the probe was not ground-breakingly notable, its inclusion in the article is appropriate. sirlanz 23:30, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a very notable device 

message: I've been trying to fill in details-- too many of the sources just gloss over and repeat the same details. 
This page https://www.aao.org/Assets/faca82f2-d78e-4844-862e-171431aac204/636430635852570000/higginbotham-and-bath-pdf?inline=1 , an interview by the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 2011, has some interesting background not available in some of the other references-- I added it to the external references at the bottom of the article.
Looks like by Dr. Bath's concept of laser phaco was first introduced to ophthalmologists worldwide at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery convention in April 1987.  I need to find a reference for this. 
I'd like to put her work on photoablative cataract surgery into context with what other researchers were doing at the same time, but that will take a bit more research, which I don't have time for right at the moment. Skepticalgiraffe (talk) 22:21, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding details

message: There are multiple, RS for the Laserphaco Probe. Not only should some of them be included in this BLP, but as the IP noted, this device warrants its own article. I'll give it one when I have time, unless someone else does it first. X4n6 (talk) 23:28, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple Laserphaco Probe sources 

message: The original wording said in 2011 "American Academy of Ophthalmology induction into the Museum of Vision for contributions to Ophthalmology." I can only find sources that say Dr. Bath was interviewed for the Museum's oral history collection that year..  Please add back if additional sources confirm the original wording. Straurob (talk) 20:23, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Museum of Vision Honor 

message: fchgvj  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.176.146.87 (talk) 18:57, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  ghbjn 

message: There is something wrong with a whole sections format.  Wrong typeface, etc.  Like it's a block quote.  I can't figure out the problem.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:14, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to assume you're referring to #Early life and education, which was throwing off the formatting because paragraphs can't start with a space otherwise they indent. Primefac (talk) 19:32, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:58, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting issue