You may have ended up doing a vastly superior LASIK by that decision. In the USA, it remains a common marketing technique to advertise prices for non-wavefront LASIK and then upsell everyone to wavefront LASIK by telling them that you might be crazy to get non-wavefront LASIK done.

Another difference -- here the surgeon suggests the benzodiazapines. You would have been given surgery without valium if you hadn't asked your general doctor?