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Meet the Plastic Surgeon Who Shares His Operations On Snapchat

• Motherboard.vice.com

Warning: This video contains graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised.

Posing for his phone camera in scrubs and a facemask, plastic surgeon Matthew Schulman usually placates his 1 million-plus daily Snapchat followers in the morning with a little teaser: "Today we have an exciting tummy tuck and some liposuction, so stay tuned!" Schulman is a Manhattan-based doctor famous for filming his daily operations live on Snapchat. His handle is @nycplasticsurg.

Schulman recently let Motherboard into his operating room for an exclusive look at his process.

With the consent of his patients, Dr. Schulman broadcasts some of the gory yet honest details of surgeries, using his Snapchat account to let followers watch him slice and dice inert, unconscious patients and pack their butts or breasts with silicone bags—or scrape out subcutaneous fat from their bellies. A nearby nurse uses a smartphone to carefully capture all the flaps of skin flopping around, while Schulman nonchalantly answers viewers questions. "It's psychiatry with a knife," Schulman said when we visited him. "That's really what it is."

The criticisms thrown his way by others in the field are many, the biggest being that his concentration is compromised when being filmed, but he's unfazed by them.