Caveat emptor Mr. Ramirez. Of course you shouldn't trust the seller of the product to tell you all about the product's downside with all the proper emphasis. The information in this article isn't "coming into sharper focus" just now. Stories like yours were already easy to find on the internet more than ten years ago when I investigated this for myself. I visited several gung-ho eye surgeons. Then read enough online to know that there are serious risks of not very uncommon results, especially for those who particularly value their fine vision. Then I spoke to the surgeons about these risks and they were quite open about them and not at all dismissive. I decided not to have Lasik. My brother went ahead with it and regrets it not at all.
No matter how much trustworthiness and gravitas your doctor exudes, and how much they dismiss pecuniary details, they see the evidence of risk through their own strong incentives. You have a duty to yourself to use their advice as just one part of the puzzle.
No matter how much trustworthiness and gravitas your doctor exudes, and how much they dismiss pecuniary details, they see the evidence of risk through their own strong incentives. You have a duty to yourself to use their advice as just one part of the puzzle.