Let's Play Doctor

Name: Let's Play Doctor
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Mark Leyner
ISBN: 9780061230172

Author: Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg

Narrator: Mark Leyner

Abridged: 1 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/02/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor

Synopsis

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 brainHow 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 fistulaDo-it-yourself surgeries from hemorrhoidectomy to breast enlargementAnd, most important, how to craft a completely believable, official-sounding get-out-of-work-for-medical-reasons note

About Mark Leyner

Mark Leyner is the author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog; I Smell Esther Williams; Et Tu Babe; and The Tetherballs of Bougainville. He has written scripts for a variety of films and television shows. His writing appears regularly in The New Yorker, Time, and GQ.

About Billy Goldberg

Billy Goldberg, M.D., is an emergency medicine physician on faculty at a New York City teaching hospital. He is also a writer and artist whose paintings have been exhibited in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Edwin on July 30, 2021

What a fun way to look at medicine If you want to become a doctor, then this is not the guide book to read. In fact, you should really go to a proper medical school and earn a medical license and stuff. If you want to read a book about medicine or life as a doctor, still, this is probably not the go-......more

Goodreads review by Gabriella on March 30, 2009

I'd give this book a 1.5 actually- okay it is light-hearted, there are some parts that are trying to be funny- I think I don't appreciate this book as much since I am in the medical field, so it wasn't that interesting to me. I liked his other 2 books much, much more (Why do men have nipples & Why d......more

Goodreads review by Tim on December 23, 2008

I've never read anything quite like this -- self-absorbed and self-congratualtory, but unique in that there is some genuine medical advice scattered within this juvenile text. Smart and goofy, like Mel Brooks on a page.......more

Goodreads review by M.A. on February 16, 2009

A light-hearted, quirky way to gain a small glimpse into the large world of information that medical practioners learn posed in an anecdotal, frat-guy style that helps to disguise the value of the bits of medical information tucked in between the humour.......more

Goodreads review by Jorge on March 18, 2009

Still a very entertaining read but not as entertaining as its two predecessors. Why Do Men Have Nipples? & Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Having Sex?. But there is an oath and a diploma when you finish the book.......more