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

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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 a few bucks. Enroll today! It’s time to play doctor!

Biography

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?