Customer Reviews

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

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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. :)

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!

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.

The book is full of random thoughts, quirky questions and useless information. It's entertaining and I got a few good laughs from it.

I've read the previous two books and I enjoyed them immensely but this is the worst book I've read in a while. Almost as if they already signed the check but then had to put out a book. And why is more than the price of the other books but far less material?

In case you're inclined to view Leyner's previous career (as a uniquely sardonic wit and social satirist) as the product of a bargain struck with Mephistopheles, these "doctor books" he now dashes off in conjunction with this Goldberg character can be viewed as what comes after the twist ending - when Satan shows up at the book-signing party demanding payment in full, and waving the signed contract like a combination past-due invoice and eviction notice.

The most bothersome aspect is the probability that something like LET'S PLAY DOCTOR is outselling ET TU, BABE by a ten-to-one margin, which is hardly Leyner's fault. But better he spends his free time with lawyers rather than doctors; what he needs is a contract-law barracuda to renegotiate his original deal with the devil, so he can get back to leaving bite-marks in corn dogs, posthaste.

Perfect gift for anyone who "plays" at being a doctor! Very tongue in cheek. Made me laugh!

I was a little shocked at some of the language in the book, lots of "bedroom" references. Definetely not appropriate for younger readers or those with a more refined vocabulary. Overall I still think it was a fun book but probably wouldn't have purchased it had I been in a bookstore and thumbed through it first.

This book was a complete waste of my time and money. There are many better books on doctors and medicine than this one. Try "House MD: The medical science of Doctor House" for one. Save yourself a few bucks and pass this one.

This book is complete drivel. I'm very interested in all things medical and purchased this book for myself and 4 likeminded coworkers to give at Christmas. It took 5 minutes of leafing through for me to determine that not only was this not an appropriate gift, but it was also a waste of the authors' time and my money. I thought that this book was going to be a quick study in medicalese, something that will aid in grasping medical terms and sounding like a medical pro, or at least something close to that. But that's not what it is at all. It's really just a chance for the authors to gather pop-culture references (quick and easy to do -- a 12-year-old can do that) and dump 'em into a loosely framed academic "course" with stupid quizzes that have nothing to do with medicine whatsoever. The book is not so much medical as it is a stroking of the authors' own egos and an attempt to look relevant ("Look at us! We're over 50 and we know who Miley Cyrus is!"). The cockiness that jumps off the pages is just remarkable. And not in a good way. I also returned all 5 copies I purchased because the book is littered with expletives. I don't know about you, but I'm not keen on giving my coworkers a gift with the F-bomb (as in FU*K) all over it. This book is a giant disappointment and a waste of time and money. The authors, publishing company, and publicists should feel ashamed of themselves. I know that I'm embarrassed for them.