Dr. Miami, real name Michael Salzhauer, is showing off his work and becoming the first surgeon to share it live on Snapchat. He also posts before and after images on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. He has found his niche and now has over half a million Snapchat followers.
Plastic Surgeon Gained Over 500k Followers After Snapchatting Live Surgeries
By
Muk Khatri in
Bizarre
On 2nd February 2016
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#1 He also posts before and after images on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. He has found his niche and now has over half a million Snapchat followers.
#2 The doc makes sure to warn people before they add him on Snapchat: “WARNING: Not for the faint of heart! Graphic surgical footage, plus office drama”
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#3 His Snapchat “TheRealDrMiami”, broadcasts his surgeries daily to around. pic Speaking with Buzzfeed he said “This is the reality of plastic surgery in Miami today, and I want people to see it,”
He started getting 2000 or so viewers on his Snaps and now the doc gets 50 times as many viewers tuning in for his gruesome surgery scenes.
His business has increased from booking 1520 appointments a day to around 80100. Salzhauer thinks seeing the before-and-after pictures on the networks helps people considering plastic surgery feel like they can trust him.
#4 The 43-year-old started with Instagram but they weren’t a fan of his first page so they deleted his account a few months ago. It had amassed nearly 90,000 followers.
His daughter introduced him to Snapchat.
"I was really frustrated, I woke up one morning with zero followers and was like, what else can I do to show people what we do here?"
He started getting 2000 or so viewers on his Snaps and now the doc gets 50 times as many viewers tuning in for his gruesome surgery scenes.
His business has increased from booking 1520 appointments a day to around 80100. Salzhauer thinks seeing the before-and-after pictures on the networks helps people considering plastic surgery feel like they can trust him.
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#5 His Snaps are so popular he has been nominated for Snapchatter of the year:
Now I know what a lot of you guys want to do right now You are itching to head over to the comments section and start ripping this guy a new one for Snapchatting his patients. BUT WAIT! Put the pitchforks down the patients sign a consent form before being Snapchatted.
"About half my patients want nothing to do with it," he said. "The other half are remarkably open to it, and a lot of the patients come in requesting to be on Snapchat. Some of them want their boyfriend's name written on their back or their favorite band, like, ‘Shout out this person!'"