There are some things you just can’t learn from anatomically correct dolls, TV medical shows, harried doctors running from one patient to the next, or the self-help books next to your bed. After years of being corralled into looking at someone’s mole (or consulting with a fellow guest about his brother-in-law’s painful flatulence) at numerous cocktail parties, Billy Goldberg, M.D., thought he really ought to write a book. When he met best-selling humorist Mark Leyner (whose love of arcane medical knowledge dated back to childhood, when he waited eagerly for the mailman to deliver Annals of Gastrointestinal Surgery), he suddenly knew how it should be done.
Leyner, of course, saw an opportunity to make a ton of money while doing almost no work.
In WHY DO MEN HAVE NIPPLES?: Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini (Three Rivers Press publication date August 2, 2006), Mark Leyner and Dr. Goldberg offer light-hearted, medically sound answers to such pressing health questions as:
•Does it really take seven years to digest chewing gum?
•Why do some folks have an “outie” belly button and some have an “innie”?
•Big hands, big _____?
•If you get bitten by a snake, should you suck out the venom?
•Why do people seem more attractive to you when you’re drunk?
•Where does gas go when you can’t fart?
•Will sleeping in front of a fan or an open window cause a stiff neck?
•Why do old ladies grow beards?
•What would really happen if a Junior Mint fell inside someone during surgery,
as in the Seinfeld episode?
Dedicated to the special doctors who inspired Goldberg and Leyner—Dr. Marcus Welby, Dr. Dre, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Scholl’s, and Dr. Pepper among them--WHY DO MEN HAVE NIPPLES? sets the record straight on the folk remedies our grandmothers swore by, the urban legends that cause our palms to sweat, and the “proven” cures for hangovers, hiccups, ice-cream headaches, and other annoying ailments.
Leyner, of course, saw an opportunity to make a ton of money while doing almost no work.
In WHY DO MEN HAVE NIPPLES?: Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini (Three Rivers Press publication date August 2, 2006), Mark Leyner and Dr. Goldberg offer light-hearted, medically sound answers to such pressing health questions as:
•Does it really take seven years to digest chewing gum?
•Why do some folks have an “outie” belly button and some have an “innie”?
•Big hands, big _____?
•If you get bitten by a snake, should you suck out the venom?
•Why do people seem more attractive to you when you’re drunk?
•Where does gas go when you can’t fart?
•Will sleeping in front of a fan or an open window cause a stiff neck?
•Why do old ladies grow beards?
•What would really happen if a Junior Mint fell inside someone during surgery,
as in the Seinfeld episode?
Dedicated to the special doctors who inspired Goldberg and Leyner—Dr. Marcus Welby, Dr. Dre, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Scholl’s, and Dr. Pepper among them--WHY DO MEN HAVE NIPPLES? sets the record straight on the folk remedies our grandmothers swore by, the urban legends that cause our palms to sweat, and the “proven” cures for hangovers, hiccups, ice-cream headaches, and other annoying ailments.
Dr. Billy on the Today Show
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