A gruesome clip shows the moment a woman had an abscess on her eye drained in a wincing procedure.
The patient, who hasn’t been unnamed, went to see her doctor after suffering with a painful spot on her eyelid.
Dr Michael Lewis, who has a family practice in Woodland Hills, California, wasted no time in dealing with the nuisance stye.
He uses the syringe twice to break the skin of her lid before squeezing hard, breaking the spot and releasing some blood.
And despite the medic using a needle to poke the stye extremely close to her eyeball, the woman does not even flinch.
A wincing clip shows the moment a woman had a stye on her eye drained
Dr Michael Lewis uses his syringe to break the skin of her lid with two stabs
Dr Michael Lewis shares stomach-churning videos of his procedures
Dr Michael Lewis said: ‘She came in with a painful swelling of the edge of her upper left eyelid.
‘She had a stye which is a clogged oil gland. It doesn’t always need antibiotics but I gave her some due to the pain and tenderness. The treatment of any abscess is drainage.
‘If the tissues are inflamed around the site, then antibiotics are recommended.’
He said he used to deliver babies – so he’s seen it all.
‘Our scope of practice, one could say, is womb to tomb,’ Dr Lewis said.
‘Nothing bothers me too much as far as procedures go.’
But he added: ‘If the smell is bad it can be really tough.’
Compulsively watching stomach-churning medical videos online appears to have become a big trend in recent years.
Dr Pimple Popper, or dermatologist Dr Sandra Lee, has become a viral sensation with clips of her surgical procedures in removing huge pimples and cysts from patients.
The California-based doctor has amassed more than 3million subscribers to her YouTube channel.
And a woman has become an unlikely social media hit by posting grizzly videos plucking her own ingrown hairs.
The anonymous 35-year-old from Seoul, South Korea – whose channel is called Tweezist – has explained she suffers from the affliction after an accident as a child left her having to wear a leg cast for several months.