Dr Mike Varshavski

Some Lesser Known Facts About Dr Mike Varshavski

• Dr Mike Varshavski is a Russian-born American doctor, boxer, and Youtuber. He is known for donating to charitable causes and giving medical-related tips and tricks to his viewers through YouTube and social media.

• His mother was an ethnic Russian. She died of leukemia during Mike’s first year at NYIT.

• Out of fear for his family’s safety due to rising anti-Jewish crimes in Russia, Mike’s father shifted the family to the US when Mike was just six years old. According to Mike, when he arrived in New York, he could only speak a few words in English. He also said that he found it difficult to adjust to his surroundings because of the cultural and language barrier. In an interview, he said,
  

  When we came to the United States of America (in New York), I faced a lot of problems growing up. I did know only three English words: yes, no and maybe. On the first day of school in Brooklyn, my teacher assumed I spoke English and asked me a question. I said “yes,” so she moved on. She asked me another question. I said “no,” and she moved on. She decided to clarify with another question. When I said “maybe,” she knew I had absolutely no idea what I was talking about there. I guess most of the kids who come from different countries have to go through this. I, eventually, got over it and it was better then.”

  

• In June 2014, Mike worked at the Atlantic Healthcare System. He worked there as a resident physician till June 2017.

• Mike was listed by the US-based People magazine as one of the sexiest men alive in 2015.

• In August 2015, he came into the spotlight when BuzzFeed published an article about him titled “Um, You Really Need To See This Hot Doctor And His Dog.” The article highlighted Mike’s good looks and his love for his dog, a husky named Roxy.

  

• In 2015, Mike founded Limitless Tomorrow, which provided scholarships to students wanting to pursue higher education. During the COVID pandemic, Mike donated $50k worth of N-95 masks to frontline healthcare workers. His foundation once raised $91k by collaborating with a dating service named Coffee Meets Bagel.

  

• In 2016, Mike was employed by D. M. Operations as its President.

• Mike was invited as a guest speaker at Columbia University in April 2016.

  

• Mike delivered a motivational speech in 2017 at TEDx, held in Monte Carlo, Italy.

  

• He began working as an attending physician at the Atlantic Healthcare System in February 2018.

• Mike was employed as a primary care physician at New Jersey-based Chatham Family Medicine in the same year.

• Under the tagline “Alert Not Anxious,” Mike started an information campaign to fight against the misinformation that was being spread during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• In March 2020, he donated N95 masks of $50,000 worth amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

• In June 2020, Mike was named an ambassador for the United Nations “Verified” initiative

• In May 2022, Mike’s Lamborghini Urus was stolen by a parking garage employee at Hudson Yards who took it for a 5-hour long joy ride.

• Varshavski donated $100,111 to Feeding America in June 2022 through a fundraiser organized by YouTuber Ryan Trahan.

• Mike has his official website named Doctor Mike, through which he sells different types of products to his customers all across the world.

• Mike flew in an F-16 fighter jet of the United States Air Force (USAF) in June 2021.

  

• Mike frequently posts content on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. According to him, he created an account on social media to break the myth that doctors have no life outside of medical studies. His followers on social media swelled when an article titled “Um, You Really Need To See This Hot Doctor And His Dog” was published by BuzzFeed on him in 2015. Mike uploads different types of content on social media. He has more than 4.4 million followers on Instagram. 302.8k followers on Twitter, and 5.2 million followers on Facebook as of December 2022.

• Mike started his channel, Doctor Mike, on YouTube in 2016. On YouTube, he covers different medical topics for his viewers and also answers their queries. He also uploads meme review videos on his channel that is sent to him by his viewers. In March 2020, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was interviewed by Mike for his YouTube channel. As of December 2022, he has more than 10.4 million subscribers on his channel. Mike’s monthly income from YouTube in 2021 was $472,763. ^[8]Yahoo Finance

  

• Mike made his exhibition boxing match debut on 14 May 2022. He fought a match against a YouTuber named iDubbbz and won. Later, Mike announced that he would donate his net earnings from the match to Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund – GlobalGiving.

  

• Mike is passionate about basketball. In October 2022, he played basketball at the Brooklyn Nets-organised Annual Celebrity Games. Apart from playing basketball, Mike also plays lawn tennis.

  

• On 29 October 2022, Mike fought his first professional boxing match against a retired UFC player named Chris Avila and lost by a unanimous decision by the judges. In an interview, Chris said,
  

  Props to Dr. Mike for taking the fight and no bad or whatever towards him. I am happy to get the win. I would have liked to get the finish but it was only a four-round fight.”

  

• When Mike was in school, he earned the name Doctor Mike from his schoolmates as he used to bandage their wounds whenever they got injured.

• Mike has often appeared on talk shows organised by national news channels in the US like CNN, ABC, Fox News, etc. Mike has also been invited to several podcasts.

  

• During an interview, Mike said that after his family moved to the US, his family underwent a severe financial crisis. He further said that money was not flowing in the household as his father was pursuing medical studies, and his mother had to take up a minimal-wage job. While talking about it, he said,
  

  I still remember, to this day, begging my parents for a quarter to buy a bag of chips. What I learned from all of this is having a lot of money does not change your happiness level once your basic needs are accounted for.”

• On 5 February 2024, Doctor Mike and David Rush set a record for The most alternate fist bumps (397) in 30 seconds (team of two), which The Guinness Book of Records registered.

  

• He also sells Doctor Mike merchandise on his eponymous website.

• He can speak Russian and English.

• He is afraid of Scorpions.

• He is sensitive to caffeine and doesn’t drink coffee much.

• Mike often posts pictures of himself with his pet dogs named Roxy, an Alaskan Husky, and Bear, a Newfoundland.

  

• Mike has earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

• Mike consumes liquor occasionally.