Dr. Miami
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{{short description|American plastic surgeon (born 1972)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Michael Salzhauer
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972 |04|16}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Eva Zafira Zion|1995}}{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/09/style/weddings-eva-z-zion-michael-a-salzhauer.html | title=WEDDINGS; Eva Z. Zion, Michael A. Salzhauer | date=July 9, 1995 | access-date=June 11, 2014 | work=The New York Times}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
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| other_names = Dr. Miami
| alma_mater = Rockland Community College
Brooklyn College
Washington University School of Medicine
| occupation = Plastic Surgeon
}}
Michael Salzhauer (born April 16, 1972) is an American celebrity doctor who practices plastic surgery. He is active on social media as Dr. Miami, has been on reality TV, has recorded a song, and written a children's book. He runs a plastic surgery practice in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.
Early life and education
At 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. The rest of the family moved first to Vienna and then Berlin. When the Nazis came to power, his grandfather moved to Mandatory Palestine, and Salzhauer's father was born in Tel Aviv. His father moved to New York City in 1958, where Salzhauer was born in 1972 and grew up.
While the rest of his family had attended Jewish schools, Salzhauer wanted to go to public high school to compete on the swim team. He was teased over the shape of his nose, and he left and went to the Frisch School, a Jewish high school.Staff. [http://issuu.com/sfjh/docs/sfjh_march29/34 "Behind the Jewcan Sam controversy: Controversial Plastic Surgeon Offers Free Surgery To Jewish Singles"], South Florida Jewish Home, March 29, 2012. Accessed May 12, 2021. "I went to A.S.H.A.R. in Monsey, Moriah in Englewood, NJ; spent freshman year of high school in Public School (Tappan Zee High School), where incidentally I was teased pretty regularly for my 'big Jewish Schnoz'; then went to the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus, New Jersey." He then attended Rockland Community College from 1989 to 1990 before transferring into Brooklyn College's BA/MD program. There, he met his wife, Eva. After two years he transferred to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. 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. The other residents performed a rhinoplasty on Salzhauer as a gift for the completion of his residency. They also gave him a chin implant and liposuction.{{cite web|last1=Miller|first1=Michael E.|title=Michael Salzhauer, Miami's Wackiest Plastic Surgeon, Risks Everything for Internet Fame|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/michael-salzhauer-miamis-wackiest-plastic-surgeon-risks-everything-for-internet-fame-6387194|website=Miami New Times|date=June 21, 2012}}{{cite web|title=Dr. Michael Salzhauer|url=https://health.usnews.com/doctors/michael-salzhauer-96215|publisher=U.S. News & World Report – Health|access-date=May 23, 2018}}
Career
In 2003, Salzhauer opened his own practice in Bal Harbour, Florida, and six years later moved to a new five-story building there.{{cite news|last1=Garcia-Roberts|first1=Gus|title=Let's Get Jiggly|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/lets-get-jiggly-6362671|work=Miami New Times|date=February 5, 2009}} 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.
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.{{cite news|last1=Springen|first1=Karen|title=Kids' Book on Plastic Surgery|url=http://www.newsweek.com/kids-book-plastic-surgery-86421|work=Newsweek|date=April 14, 2008|language=en}} It was illustrated by Victor Guiza.{{cite journal|last=Abate|first=Michelle Ann|title="Plastic Makes Perfect": My Beautiful Mommy, Cosmetic Surgery, and the Medicalization of Motherhood|journal=Women's Studies|year=2010|volume=39|issue=7|pages=715–746|doi=10.1080/00497878.2010.505152|s2cid=144928492}} 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."{{cite journal|last=Reist|first=Melinda Tankard|title=The pornification of girlhood|journal=Quadrant|date=Jul–Aug 2008|volume=52|issue=7–8|page=13}}{{cite news|last=Alter|first=Cathy|title='My Beautiful Mommy': How a Picture Book Explains Liposuction to Kids|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/03/my-beautiful-mommy-how-a-picture-book-explains-liposuction-to-kids/73051/|access-date=February 19, 2014|newspaper=The Atlantic|date=March 26, 2011}} 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".{{cite web|first=Karen |last=Springen |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/04/14/mommy-2-0.html |title=Mommy 2.0 |work=The Daily Beast |date=April 14, 2008 |access-date=November 19, 2011}} Salzhauer defended the book, saying that he wrote it to help parents explain such surgeries to their children.{{cite magazine|last=Bierly|first=Mandi|title=My beautiful, scarring-me-forever mommy?|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2008/04/18/my-beautiful-mo/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=November 20, 2011|date=April 18, 2008}}{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-books-plasticsurgery-idUSN1742411920080417 | work=Reuters | title=Mom's having tummy tuck? What to tell the kids | date=April 17, 2008}}
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| language = English
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| genre = Children's literature
| publisher = Big Tent Books
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| isbn = 1-60131-032-3
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In 2009, Salzhauer published a virtual plastic surgery iPhone application that allowed users to tweak photographs of themselves to simulate operations. The New York Times commented that the results were "worthy of a fun-house mirror".{{cite news|title=The Doctor Can See You Now|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/fashion/21SkinSide.html|access-date=September 19, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=January 20, 2010}}
In 2012, he caused controversy within the Orthodox Jewish community after producing a video titled "Jewcan Sam" with the Jewish punk band The Groggers.{{cite news|last=McCorquodale|first=Amanda|title=Michael Salzhauer Offers Free Plastic Surgery To Single Orthodox Jews|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/michael-salzhauer-free_n_1373186.html|access-date=February 26, 2014|newspaper=Huffingtonpost|date=March 22, 2012}}{{cite news|last=Ravitz|first=Jessica|title=Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me … a nose job appointment?|url=http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/02/matchmaker-matchmaker-make-me-a-nose-job-appointment/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404045138/http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/02/matchmaker-matchmaker-make-me-a-nose-job-appointment/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 4, 2012|access-date=February 26, 2014|newspaper=CNN|date=April 2, 2012}}{{cite news|last=Miller|first=Michael|title=Michael Salzhauer, Miami's Wackiest Plastic Surgeon, Risks Everything for Internet Fame|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2012-06-21/news/michael-salzhauer-miami-s-wackiest-plastic-surgeon-risks-everything-for-internet-fame/|access-date=February 26, 2014|newspaper=Miami New Times|date=June 21, 2012}} The video features a young Jewish man who undergoes rhinoplasty at the request of his girlfriend. 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.{{cite web|title=Jewish Plastic Surgeon In Trouble Over 'Jewcan Sam' Video|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/michael-salzhauer-jewish-_n_1389752.html|website=The Huffington Post|date=March 30, 2012}}
Salzhauer is also active on social media posting under his nickname "Dr. Miami." Apart from using Instagram and Twitter, the surgeon is also active on Snapchat's story mode, where he posts videos of cosmetic surgeries.{{cite web|title=Meet Dr. Miami, the Plastic Surgeon Who SnapChats His Operations in Real Time|date=April 24, 2015 |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-dr-miami-the-plastic-surgeon-who-snapchats-his-operations-400/|publisher=Vice.com}} As of 2016, he had around a million followers on Snapchat.{{cite web|title=Lights! Camera! Suction! How A Plastic Surgeon Became A Snapchat Sensation|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/marisacarroll/how-plastic-surgeon-dr-miami-became-a-snapchat-sensation|website=BuzzFeed|date=May 12, 2016|first=Marisa |last=Carroll}} Salzhauer is also active on TikTok, where he has 2.7 million followers as of 2023.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-04 |title=Dr. Miami & The Twilight Of The BBL |url=https://www.bustle.com/style/dr-miami-michael-salzhauer-bbl-surgery |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=Bustle |language=en}}
In January 2016, Salzhauer was nominated for the eighth annual Shorty Award in the Snapchatter of the year category.{{cite web|title=Dr. Miami Michael Salzhauer Up For Snapchatter Of The Year Award|date=February 12, 2016 |url=http://www.inquisitr.com/2789938/dr-miami-michael-salzhauer-up-for-snapchatter-of-the-year-award-can-the-famous-plastic-surgeon-beat-kylie-jenner-and-dj-khaled/|publisher=Inquisitr|access-date=March 5, 2016}}{{cite web|title=Real Dr. Miami Finalist In Snapchatter Of The Year|url=http://shortyawards.com/8th/therealdrmiami|publisher=Shortyawards.com|access-date=January 19, 2016}} He came in second place, losing to DJ Khaled.{{cite web|title=Snapchat's 'Dr. Miami' Records Surgeries Live in Operating Room|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/miami-plastic-surgeon-snapchat-record-surgeries-live-operating/story?id=38745074|website=ABC News|access-date=May 1, 2016|date=April 29, 2016}}
In July 2016, WE tv announced a reality television series, Dr. Miami, starring Salzhauer.{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/dr-miami-michael-salzhauer-we-tv-plastic-surgery-1201811525/|title=We TV Orders 'Dr. Miami' Plastic Surgery Reality Show|last=Littleton|first=Cynthia|date=July 11, 2016|work=Variety|access-date=July 17, 2017|language=en-US}} The series premiered on March 31, 2017, and ran for 6 episodes on WE tv.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wetv.com/shows/dr-miami|title=Dr. Miami|website=WE tv|language=en-US|access-date=July 17, 2017}}
In 2017, Salzhauer and recording artist Adam Barta released a song called "Flawless".{{Cite web|url=http://www.wetv.com/shows/dr-miami/videos/season-01/episode-01-plastic-makes-perfect/the-making-of-flawless|title=The Making of Flawless|website=WE tv|language=en-US|access-date=June 28, 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://toofab.com/2017/03/31/wetvs-dr-miami-wants-to-give-donald-trump-a-butt-lift-and-make-lena-dunham-look-like-jemima-kirke/|title=WeTV's Dr. Miami Wants to Give Donald Trump a 'Butt Lift' And 'Make Lena Dunham Look Like Jemima Kirke'|website=toofab|access-date=June 28, 2017}} The song reached #24 on the Billboard dance/electronic digital chart,{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/dance-electronic-digital-song-sales/2017-04-22|title=EDM Digital Songs: Top Dance Music Chart|magazine=Billboard|access-date=June 28, 2017}} #9 on iTunes dance singles chart,{{Cite web|url=https://healthtuition.com/dr-miami-net-worth|title=Dr. Miami Net Worth 2023: How Much Does Dr. Miami Make?|date=January 15, 2017 }} and #32 on the Billboard hot club dance chart.{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/7865863/dance-chart-upstarts-san-holo-justin-caruso-dr-miami-adam-barta|title=Billboard Dance Chart Upstarts: San Holo, Justin Caruso and Dr. Miami & Adam Barta|magazine=Billboard|access-date=July 17, 2017}}
In 2020, Salzhauer's documentary, They Call Me Dr. Miami, directed by Jean-Simon Chartier, was released on Discovery+.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/01/discovery-picks-up-plastic-surgery-doc-they-call-me-dr-miami-1234677285/|title=Discovery+ Picks Up Plastic Surgery Doc They Call Me Dr. Miami|last=White|first=Peter|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=January 21, 2021|accessdate=August 30, 2022}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://balharboursurgery.com/ Bal Harbour Plastic Surgery Associates]
- [https://www.forbes.com/sites/seamuskirst/2016/02/23/michael-salzhauer-aka-dr-miami-discusses-his-plastic-surgery-snapchat-videos-and-brand/#36d996e31b86 Michael Salzhauer, AKA Dr. Miami, Discusses His Plastic Surgery Snapchat Videos And Brand] (interview) Forbes.com
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