Episode 3156
Jacob Bolotin
Wed, 2025-Dec-24 00:04 UTC
Length - 1:44
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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.
The random article for Wednesday, 24 December 2025, is Jacob Bolotin.
Jacob W. Bolotin (January 3, 1888 – April 1, 1924) was the world's first totally blind physician.
Born in 1888 to a poor immigrant family in Chicago, United States, Bolotin fought prejudice and misconceptions about the capabilities of blind people in order to win acceptance to medical school and then into the medical profession. He fought his way into and through the Chicago Medical School, graduated with honors at 24, and became the world's first totally blind physician fully licensed to practice medicine. He was particularly recognized for his expertise on diseases of the heart and lungs. Bolotin used his many public speaking engagements to advocate for the employment of the blind and their full integration into society. After he died at the young age of 36, his funeral was attended by 5,000 people.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:04 UTC on Wednesday, 24 December 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Jacob Bolotin on Wikipedia.
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