OV 753.8 (RV 753.8)
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
label: Collection Creator
content: Bath, Patricia, Dr., 1942-2019
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content: Patricia Bath Innovative Lives Presentation and Interview, [videotapes]
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content: Patricia Bath Innovative Lives Presentation and Interview, [videotapes] / Series 1: Original Videos
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2000 March 1
container: label: Container
content: Box OV 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [174751159]
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Eraka Bath Interview, 2000 March 1 (at National Museum of American History)

Total Running Time: 20:35

Discusses her background and interest in science and medicine and why she decided to become a doctor. Provides her image of her mother-professional, detail oriented person who is independent and confident. Speaks of the obstacles her mother had to overcome-growing up in Harlem and being the first black, female resident at New York University in ophthalmology. Eraka states that her goal is to identify areas in healthcare that need to be fixed and to allocate funds to the needed areas.