Getting LASIK in South Korea Was a Fascinating And Hilarious Journey

My latest article about getting LASIK eye surgery in South Korea has now been published in Human Parts:

That Time I Got My Eyeballs Lasered in South Korea

The teddy bear was a surprise. They dressed me in a blue robe and squirted a bucket-load of anesthetic into my eyes. Two nurses led me into a dark room where three giant X-ray machines waited. They laid me down under the first machine, placed a teddy bear on my chest, folded my arms around it, tucked me in with a blanket, and said, “Shhhhhhh.”

I looked up. A...