Thanks for weighing in.

A decade back, my SO worked on clinical trials at a research hospital in the eye clinic. I understand nothing about this stuff.

However, I gleened one important bit of advice:

Avoid any surgery, procedure that surgeons themselves avoid. My SO claims that eye doctors avoid LASIK.

Maybe 10 years ago, a visiting eye doctor was lecturing about LASEK (not LASIK), an operation he had done on himself, and other doctors took note. That was evidence to my SO that LASEK was worth considering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy#LA...

Again, I know exactly nothing about this stuff. I am not saying to have LASIK or not. Progress marches on and I'm certain techniques have improved.

But I do think this is a good universal heuristic. So am encouraging patients to ask their care provider if they'd get it done themselves.