
As of 2016, he had around a million followers on Snapchat. Miami." Apart from using Instagram and Twitter, the surgeon is also active on Snapchat's story mode, where he posts videos of cosmetic surgeries. Salzhauer is also active on social media posting under his nickname "Dr. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons initiated an ethics investigation as a result, and both Salzhauer and the band were accused of playing into Jewish stereotypes. The video features a young Jewish man who undergoes rhinoplasty at the request of his girlfriend. In 2012, he caused controversy within the Orthodox Jewish community after producing a video titled " Jewcan Sam" with the Jewish punk band The Groggers. The New York Times commented that the results were "worthy of a fun-house mirror". In 2009, Salzhauer published a virtual plastic surgery iPhone application that allowed users to tweak photographs of themselves to simulate operations. Salzhauer defended the book, saying that he wrote it to help parents explain such surgeries to their children.

Salzhauer and the book were criticized for promoting elective cosmetic surgery and for a line that suggests that mother's new nose will "be prettier." Child psychologist Elizabeth Berger has noted that while an explanatory book will be helpful for children, it "can be difficult for small kids to understand". Salzhauer authored a children's book in 2008 titled My Beautiful mother, which focused on a young girl whose mother undergoes a tummy tuck, a nose job, and breast augmentation. He told a reporter for Miami New Times in 2012, that "Marketing makes the world go 'round" and that he had courted the publicity of controversy. In 2003, Salzhauer opened his own practice in Bal Harbour, Florida, and six years later moved to a new five story building there. They also gave him a chin implant and liposuction. The other residents performed a rhinoplasty on Salzhauer as a gift for the completion of his residency. After graduating he did his residency at first at Mount Sinai in Miami in general surgery, then at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami for plastic surgery, then did further training in plastic surgery at Cleveland Clinic in Weston, Florida. After two years he transferred to Washington University School of Medicine in St.

He then attended Rockland Community College from 1989 to 1990 before transferring into Brooklyn College's BA/MD program. He was teased over the shape of his nose, and he left and went to the Frisch School, a Jewish high school. While the rest of his family had attended Jewish schools, Salzhauer wanted to go to public high school to compete on the swim team. His father moved to New York City in 1958, where Salzhauer was born in 1972 and grew up. When the Nazis came to power, his grandfather moved to Israel, and Salzhauer's father was born in Tel Aviv.

The rest of the family moved first to Vienna and then Berlin. He runs a plastic surgery practice in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.Īt the outbreak of World War I, Salzhauer's grandfather's family fled Ukraine and pogroms there his great-grandfather was clubbed to death by a Cossack as the family left. Miami, has been on reality TV, has recorded a song, and written a children's book.

Michael Salzhauer (born 1972) is an American celebrity doctor who practices plastic surgery.
