On Google Reviews, the assessments of Spokane’s self-described “world renowned” plastic surgeon Cameron Chesnut are stellar. The dermatologist-turned-facial-plastic surgeon has a 4.8 out of 5: Of the 204 reviews, 188 are 5 stars — and most of the less positive reviews are from a handful of people he never operated on.
But that image of perfection appears to be an artificial construction. This month, a patient on Reddit wrote that, before their surgery at Chesnut’s clinic, they had to sign a non-disclosure agreement — or NDA — banning them from writing “any negative reviews online” or even mentioning “the existence of the NDA itself.”
InvestigateWest spoke to multiple former patients who confirmed that Chesnut has asked some patients to sign NDAs. Chesnut did not respond to repeated interview requests. However, he bragged in a 2023 Instagram video that, unlike some surgeons, he did not give patients NDAs…