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, suffering after plastic surgery: " My biggest fear

is somebody else is going to end up like me. "

It's a plastic surgery nightmare, one that sadly came true for a

Michigan woman. Earlier on 6 News, we introduced you to a woman who

says she went in for liposuction and a tummy tuck. Instead, she got

two years of pain and misery, and we learn she's not the only one.

The state medical board is looking into the cases of four women, all

who say they went to Doctor Lee Colony for plastic surgery. All who

say their surgeries went painfully wrong.

America is obsessed with looking good. Millions are flocking to

plastic surgeons for quick results, but that shortcut to beauty can

lead to the fast track of pain and suffering. is

living proof of just how bad things can get.

: " I have had kidney stones and I have given birth

to two children, and I would rather have all of those three things

happen to me together than every have this again. "

She's referring to the constant pain she's been in since she went to

Doctor Lee Colony for liposuction and a tummy tuck more than two

years ago. She developed an infection that went undiagnosed for

nearly four months. An infection that led to dead skin that needed

to be surgically removed, three skin grafts that didn't take and a

life far from the one she imagined.

: " I can't wear clothes, I can't wear undergarments

because it creates open wounds. "

's story is just one of four cases being investigated by the

Michigan Attorney General's Office. Four women who experienced

similar problems after plastic surgery. All of them patients of

Doctor Lee Colony of East Lansing.

Nate , Michigan Attorney General's Office: " There were

concerns in the way procedures were conducted, and there were

continued concerns in the way followup care was conducted with these

patients. "

6 News has obtained a report filed with the State Board of Medicine

by investigators from the Attorney General's Office. The 20-page

report details the problems each woman experienced following

surgery. It tells of one woman who never received her pain medicine

after getting breast implants. She later went to another doctor to

have problems with the implants corrected.

The other cases are similar to 's, all three women

went to Doctor Colony for liposuction and a tummy tuck. In all three

cases, the patients noticed that the skin around their incisions

started dying.

Nate : " That's clearly one of the common things that we find

that there is a wound breakdown, there are problems following

surgery, there are problems with the recovery process. "

Problems the attorney general's report says could have easily been

avoided.

Nate : " incompetence tends to indicate more of a trend, a

pattern of that negligence. "

Actions they say amount to negligence, incompetence and a lack of

good moral character. In the report, the state claims Doctor Colony

failed to do proper followup exams, and on more than one occasion,

he would document that the patient was doing well, even though the

patient said they were experiencing serious problems. Time after

time, the report details how the problems persisted until another

doctor stepped in a took over the patient's care.

Nate : " when you have patients with an infection going to

other doctors, and the original doctor is telling them everything is

fine, that the patient is fine, and that's a concern when you see

that kind of vast disconnect, it really troubles you. "

..

Doctor Colony's case is now before the State Medical Board for

review. Whether he'll face disciplinary action is yet to be decided.

Meanwhile, he continues to practice out of his East Lansing office.

: " I want them to take his license, I want everybody

to know he's doing this to people. "

We tried to get Doctor Colony to comment on the allegations made

against him, but he refused. However, his attorney filed a written

response to the state. In it, he denies all of the allegations made

against him by all four women, specifically denying claims that he

was negligent, incompetent and that he lacked good moral character.