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.
Actually, we looked yesterday how many eye surgeons underwent LASIK/PRK in the previous 5 years to write a study about this specific topic (this . We found 16 people.
LASEK had a surge of interest 5-10 years ago because it was tought that it could have the pros of both PRK and LASIK. Nowadays it is more or less forgotten (no real benefit in comparison with PRK).
Eye surgeons not getting surgery was totally true 15 years ago but it is not anymore (at least in France)
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.