Natasha Singer writes for the NYT:
Watching the segments, Victoria Arnaiz, a manicurist in Hialeah Gardens, was impressed by Mr. Ayala's professionalism. She had always wanted to have liposuction. So when the show flashed the name of Mr. Ayala's clinic, the Advanced Center for Cosmetic Surgery, she asked her husband to copy the phone number. Ms. Arnaiz then went to the clinic in Weston, an upscale suburb of Fort Lauderdale. There she met Mr. Ayala and Gregorio Nosovsky, a man wearing green surgical scrubs whom she believed to be another plastic surgeon. They promised her that surgery would give her a body like Barbie's, she said. "You say to yourself, 'These are the doctors I have been looking for,' " Ms. Arnaiz said. Two weeks later both men were in the operating room before she received anesthesia for her liposuction, she said. After the post-operative corset was removed, Ms. Arnaiz discovered craterlike indentations on her back and cottage-cheese-like lumps in her abdomen, which a licensed plastic surgeon told her would cost $18,000 to $20,000 to fix. She cannot afford either fee.