Ask the surgeon how many lasik treatments he's done so far. You don't want to be his first. The guy who did mine had just under 2000 treatments under his belt at the time he worked on me in early spring 1999. He's probably got 10,000 now.
You guys are going to be bent about this: I had mine done in San Diego for $800 an eye, including topology mapping, although maybe this is not the "new" mapping software mentioned above. It was state of the art at the time, the laser was provided with data from a topology map so that it could correct for astigmatism too. Printed out in false color, the map was interesting, the surgeon showed me where I had raised circular corneal callous-like tissue caused by the edges of hard contacts, and depressed areas at top and bottom from squinting. I actually had to stop wearing hard contact lenses for several months to allow the callouses to diminish before he would perform the lasik. I always favored hard lenses for some work, for me the visual correction was superior to soft lenses.
