Many myopic patients want to go to the hospital for myopic laser surgery, but when they go to the hospital, they find many ophthalmologists wearing glasses. They wonder but are embarrassed to ask: Why don’t ophthalmologists do myopic laser surgery themselves? First of all, myopia laser surgery is one of several myopia correction options currently available (the others are: frames, contact lenses, keratoplasty, intraocular lens implants and lens replacement), and it is an elective treatment that not everyone needs to undergo. It is not a procedure that everyone has to undergo, unlike malignant tumor removal or fracture fixation and repositioning. At present, most of the people who undergo laser surgery for myopia are young people, especially white-collar workers and students, mostly because of the need to change their image, employment recruitment, military recruitment or medical examination for school admission, while most doctors have stable jobs and relatively little need in this area. Secondly, doctors also because of the need for self-protection. Unlike ordinary people, ophthalmologists are often close to patients, or even zero distance contact, and the conjunctiva is a weak part of the human body surface, some diseases transmitted through body fluids may also be transmitted through the conjunctiva, many foreign ophthalmologists work with protective glasses. For ophthalmologists, myopic glasses can act as protective goggles in a way to protect their health. Last, but not least, ophthalmologists have higher requirements for near vision because of the requirements of delicate surgery. In terms of professional needs, it is better for ophthalmologists to have 300 degrees of myopia so that it is easier to work. After the college entrance examination physical examination, the doctor’s myopic refraction is basically below 400 degrees, and ophthalmologists after decades of hard work, learning, technology, experience at the age of 40 years old are beginning to mature, if you take off myopic glasses, at this time may have to wear another pair of presbyopic glasses, from this point of view, myopia about 300 degrees of ophthalmologists to receive myopic laser surgery is not very necessary. Although there are still ophthalmologists who have not undergone myopic laser surgery, the safety and effectiveness of myopic laser surgery has been widely recognized by everyone. The world-famous Chinese table tennis champion Deng Yaping, American golfer Tiger Woods, and British Prince William have all undergone corneal refractive surgery, and in 2007 NASA has approved astronaut candidates for femtosecond laser corneal refractive surgery. Many doctors and nurses have had myopic laser surgery done by me personally. In the refractive surgery team I lead, three people are myopic and two have had the surgery, one of whom had the surgery eight years ago when she was going to college, and the other, after observing my work for six years, made up her mind to undergo the surgery this year. My wife, who is also a doctor, rewarded herself with laser surgery when she got her PhD in 2004. Dr. Zhang Jing of Shanghai RuiShi Ophthalmology is my sister-in-law, she is also a refractive surgeon herself, she received laser surgery last year by using her time off before going abroad for a study tour, and my other mentor, Dr. Li Yi of Shanghai Huashan Hospital (North Hospital) Ophthalmology was personally helped by me to have laser surgery 3 years ago. Dr. Zhang Zhe of Ningbo Eye Hospital was the first to have laser surgery in his department in 2002, and now all 3 doctors and 4 nurses in their department have had laser surgery. Indeed, many medical staff and their relatives and friends have already had the surgery, only for the principle of medical confidentiality, I am not at liberty to disclose the privacy of their treatment in public without their own consent. It is estimated that the number of myopic laser surgeries in China has exceeded 800,000 per year, while it may reach about 1 million in the United States. Certain articles sensationalize that “myopic laser surgery is a big scary conspiracy”, when in fact those questions and concerns raised in the article have found a solution today. I rather feel that: Corneal laser surgery is a medical miracle benefiting tens of millions of people that has been pursued relentlessly and perfected over more than 20 years by tens of thousands of ophthalmologists worldwide, under the supervision of national health administrations and medical societies.