The eyes have it

I've always had good vision. Really. As a kid it was "better than perfect" - 20/15 vision in fact. Good news, I still have amazing eyesite - today's appointment was on the recommendation of my doctor - a checkup sort of thing, not because of any complaints from me.

The bad news? Lucky me, I have pigmentary dispersion syndrome (they told me to google it...here's the more informative page I found.) So a checkup is in order in three months.

Doesn't it seem strangle though to be told by a professional health care giver to go look something up on the web? I don't mind and would have anyway...but seems like a cop out to me.