Thank you for your comments on my letter to Dr. Everett.
I'm embarrassed by my naivete, but I try to learn.

If you have time, I would like your comments and advice
about a formal research project thats I am hatching

which would entail

1) recruiting as subjects for the study,
either by hospital or surgi-center referral
or by public advertisement,
pre-operative cataract surgery patients
who have been given a firm date for cataract surgery.

2) paying these subjects to cooperate in
three or more preoperative and 
three or more postoperative visual function evaluations
consisting at minimum of

a) reading aloud into a recording device
under conditions controlled for
illumination and type size and

b) simulated operation of an automobile
using one of various commercially available
driving simulators.

c) such tasks requiring depth perception 
as threading a needle and or inserting 
a key into a lock.

3) performing analyses of the audio tracks
of the reading test, of the electronic
data generated by the driving simulator,
and of video recordings of the depth perception
tests.

4) calculating statistical comparisons
of monocular and binocular function
a) before and after surgery 
on the first eye and
b) before and after surgery 
on the second eye.

Does such a proposal sound persuasive to you?
How much "support" could I expect as principal
investigator? Would it be worth the trouble?
Would it be worth setting up my own legal entity
for this purpose? Non-profit corporation, Trust,
LLC, Professional corporation?
Would it be more practical to approach the Eye&Ear
Infirmary, Mt Auburn Hospital, NEMC, or some other
hospital? or is there a risk that they would steal
the idea, - if it's as good as I think it is.

Please don't bother with answers if you are tired
or have other more immediate concerns. I, obviously
have nothing else to do.