Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D. [Paperback]

Mark Leyner (Author), Billy Goldberg M.D. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2, 2008

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your purchase of this book means that the admissions committee has thoroughly reviewed your application and we are pleased to welcome you to the Why Do Men Have Nipples School of Medicine.*
*A not quite fully accredited institution

Let’s Play Doctor is your instant guide to becoming a Real Fake Doctor. At the Why Do Men Have Nipples School of Medicine, we offer an informative, immersive, and incredibly entertaining course of study that will give you the special skills needed to get your M.D. on! By following the lessons in Let’s Play Doctor, you’ll learn:

• Special mental exercises to give yourself that buff, bulging Doctor brain
• How to impress your peers with big, polysyllabic, esoteric medical lingo (can you say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis?)
• Easy ways to diagnose your girlfriend’s goiter or your father’s fistula
• Do-it-yourself surgeries from hemorrhoidectomy to breast enlargement
• And, most important, how to craft a completely believable, official-sounding get-out-of-work-for-medical-reasons note

Tuition? Just $14.95. Enroll today! It’s time to play doctor!

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About the Author

MARK LEYNER is the author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Et Tu, Babe; and The Tetherballs of Bougainville. He has written a variety of movies and television shows.

BILLY GOLDBERG, M.D., is an emergency medicine physician at Bellevue Hospital and NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. He is also the host of a weekly show on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Doctor Radio channel.

Together, they are the authors of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Why Do Men Have Nipples? and Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Having Sex?

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (December 2, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 030734598X
• ISBN-13: 978-0307345981
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 7.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #778,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So Hilarious!, October 18, 2009

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This review is from: Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D. (Paperback)

My boyfriend and I are both medical students and we read this book together on a break. It is SO hilarious. Easy to read and very accessible humor for health care and non-health care related people. He (who read it before his first year) still quotes it every so often and finds it lightening his outlook in classes. I sometimes share jokes from it with my patients and fellow students. I think the quiz questions in it are possibly among the funniest part. :)

5.0 out of 5 stars Wacky Fun, February 19, 2010

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After a busy week in an academic medicine training program, this book is a delightful way to decompress. It is absolutely hysterical and those in the medical model will enjoy reading it. Other people in the household will hear the laughter, it is that funny!

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun bathroom or flight book primarily "for guys", September 9, 2009

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This review is from: Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D. (Paperback)

Entertaining stuff for quick-reading and geared towards the male mindset.
Super for leaving by the toilet or bringing along on a flight.
The kind of book you can read snippets of while riding in a car or waiting for the dentist.
Includes crude sexual language and material.
It's great if you like this kind of thing. I like it.