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Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide to Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D. | 
| Authors: Mark Leyner, Billy Md Goldberg
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $6.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 47401
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 030734598X
Dewey Decimal Number: 610
EAN: 9780307345981
ASIN: 030734598X
Publication Date: December 2, 2008
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Product Description
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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Another Waste of Perfectly Good Leyner December 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
A Gigantic Letdown & A Waste of Hard-Earned Cash December 23, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
Don't waste your time December 16, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
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