laser eye surgery on the big island?

[hooligal]

I was shopping around for Lasik right before I moved over here in 07. Got to the appt, and offhandedly mentioned I was moving to Hawaii in two weeks. The doc said I'm not allowed to fly for a month, or swim/dive, or go above a couple thousand feet sea level following the surgery. I also would have to come back after a month for checkup, then again at 3 months. So I skipped the lasik I didn't research if his opinion was industry standard. Be sure to ask if it's ok to fly, swim, etc. Doc said it was an issue of change in pressure could damage the surgery results.

* I'd rather fail at happiness than succeed at misery *

[terracore]

I did a lot of searching and I can't find any doctors who do LASIK style vision correction on the BI or Maui. There are a few surgeons who have offices in Kahului for the pre-op exams etc but the actual machines are in Honolulu.

[Peter Easterling]

I had my cataract surgery done by Dr. Dan Driscoll of Hawaiian Vision Specialists. He did a fine job. The office is professionally run. I left a message about when my appointment was the next morning and I got a call at about 6:30 or 7:00 in the evening giving me the time of my visit. I asked are you still in the office. No, calling patients from home. Really caring and thorough service. Dr. Driscoll also identified a minor eye problem that had not been spotted by several other eye doctors and gave me a cheap and easy way to treat it. I ma completely satisfied.