By Nathan Baca
News Channel 3

Earlier this month, News Channel 3 reported about a doctor accused of blinding a Southland woman during eye surgery. That doctor may now lose her license.

The state of Nevada recently got a restraining order preventing Dr. Stella Chou and Vikas Jain of Lasik First from practicing medicine.

Their TV ads explain, "Lasik First is now open in Corona, Encino, Orange, Irvine, Riverside. For only $299 per eye. No exceptions, even for astigmatism."

But a Lasik machine was the last thing Lissa Lising saw out of her right eye before she lost her vision permanantly.

"I could smell burning flesh and about 10, 15 seconds after that, she said, Oh, ****!" said Lising.

Now, one of the doctors Lising went to at this Los Angeles area eye clinic is now in trouble in Nevada for allegedly blinding 22 other patients. Another one of the Lasik First medical professionals doesn't even have a license.

Executive Director of the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners Lewis Lang explained, "The person they tell you to call to set this stuff up is 'Dr. Ken,' who is Vikas Jain. And that's part of the misrepresentation case that, of course, he represents himself publicly to be a doctor. He's not licensed in California either. And he's not named Ken. He happens to use that identity to run his business."

Many Lasik surgery centers like TLC Eye Center in Palm Desert use modern equipment and charge around $2,000 an eye. It's because they spend more time on patient exams and use new lasers instead of the decade old "Nidek" brand machines at the Lasik First clinic where Lising went.

Aaron Elder at TLC Eye Center commented, "Discount centers, they survive on volume. The only way they can basically be profitable and survive is by doing tons and tons of patients every day."

Lasik First's attorneys say they are "vigorously defending" against malpractice claims. They say the evidence will show Lasik First "acted appropriately at all times." But they won't tell News Channel 3 what that evidence is. Dr. Stella Chou is the one who did Lising's Lasik surgery. Her attorney is not returning calls.

Executive Director Lang added, "The human side of this story is the worst part of it. As we were preparing the documents in this case, you read about truck drivers or contractors or in one case a retired principal who's hobby was reading. In every case these people can no longer do their job."

Lissa Lising now gets crippling headaches when she reads. "I trusted these people to be professionals, to be qualified to do what they did and now I realize I've been taken advantage of," Lising said.

The majority of laser eye surgeries can greatly improve people's vision. But Lissa Lising will need a corneal transplant to get rid of the cataracts now forming over her right eye.

The Food and Drug Administration has published its stance on laser eye surgery and the risks. For expanded information on Lasik, visit http://www.fda.gov/CDRH/LASIK/.