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Field notes.

Written by the surgeons between patients. No miracle claims, no fear-marketing — the answers we give across the desk, written down properly.

The physics of the glow around headlights — pupil size, aberrations, and why month one is worse than month six.

Probably not — and if it is, that's what ICL exists for. The actual cutoffs, procedure by procedure.

But it is drying them out. What blink-rate data actually shows, and the 20-20-20 rule we'd rewrite.

Cataracts arrive like evenings do. The five signs, and why "I just need brighter bulbs" is the classic opening line.

It isn't "perfect vision" — it's a line on a chart from 1862. What the fractions mean and which line matters for driving.

Onions-and-sand hour, the nap, the first shower, the first drive. Print this one; you won't want to read screens that day.

Questions we haven't written up?