Is There a Doctor in the House?
Finally, answers to all those strange questions you'd like to ask your own doctor but haven't had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. If you've ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .
. . .then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.
Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.
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"My best friend and I had great fun going over some of the more obscure questions in this book tonight. Great if you want to laugh, need some entertainment, or would just like to store some useless facts away to gross your friends out (haha, your urine is safer to drink than sea water! And it's cleaner than your spit! And licking a toad can get you high!)"
— Christina (4 out of 5 stars)
“Urban legends and perennial wonders get a witty treatment in this lighthearted guide to…intriguing aspects of the human body…Those looking for a good laugh will have some fun with this book.”
— Publishers Weekly“Strange, funny, occasionally perverse, and even, at times, informative…Leyner’s delivery is always clear and professional. He often sounds on the verge of laughter, and the presence of such open amusement helps carry listeners over into laughter. As a result, this is probably better on audio than in print.”
— AudioFile" Honest and funny! Great coffee table book, bathroom book, coversation starter for parties! Halarious! "
— Chary, 2/19/2014" I really liked this book. Its a little bit blunt at times and does contain some foul language(the reason for the four star rating and not a five star) but I appreciate the oddities of the human body being answered in a scientific, yet staight forward way. "
— Wendy, 2/3/2014" 100 questions answered by a doctor "
— Sharon, 1/29/2014" I found this book fun and informative. Sure, it was all stuff you could easily Google yourself, but it's the sort of stuff you don't think of when you're in a place where that's convenient. Here, it's all gathered together and organized into chapters by subject matter, so you can peruse at your leisure. The tone is light and the language is accessible and it made me chuckle a time or two. It was definitely worth the two or three hours it took to read it. "
— Rowan, 1/9/2014" Informative, funny (for the most part), and a very quick read. "
— Shikha, 1/6/2014" In short, this book was funny to read and answer a bunch of interesting questions I'd like to know from the beginning. "
— Rama, 12/22/2013" This has a few interesting facts but it's not nearly as good as I expected it to be. The dialogue between the two authors seems pretty pointless and actually makes me wonder how true the rest of the book is... "
— Lynnea, 12/22/2013" What can I say? I think it was an airport buy...and it was funny. "
— Dovie, 12/2/2013" Fun book, but the style was just a bit too sloppy and snotty for my taste and I failed to find the "episodes" between the interesting facts so boring that I skipped them. "
— Regina, 10/26/2013" This book has great questions with the answers...if you want a good laugh or dispell an "old wives tale" this is a great book. "
— Stacey, 10/7/2013" If you haven't read this, pick yourself up a copy and have a laugh. "
— Michael, 8/19/2013" It's very informative and very funny. Not for the young or prudish. I definitely recommend listening to it as an audiobook as Leyner reads it and it just adds to the humor of the book. I think as a read it may actually be kind of boring, hence only the 4 star rating "
— Sherlyn, 7/1/2013" I have lent this book to about 6 different people and each one is mesmerized. This one has a whole chapter on "Bathroom facts." Enough said. "
— Kimmie, 5/18/2013" Not anything terribly literary, but still great. I found myself laughing out loud several time. Informative, too! "
— Angel, 5/14/2013" Kind of bland. Maybe I am already into this trivia but very little of it was new to me. "
— Pkd88, 4/11/2013" another one I started and never finished. it is full of all kinds of neat factoids. I should get back to reading this "
— Nadine/Dina, 1/20/2013" Pretty much what you'd expect from a book with this title. A few amusing facts tied in through a dinner party storytelling approach. "
— Ray, 12/26/2012" LOL all day long! "
— Sacheen, 10/18/2012" I found the book a little boring, despite the very fun title. I wish they would have spent more time on the questions than on their discussions in between chapters. "
— Elissa, 9/15/2012" Fun and silly. "
— Heather, 4/24/2012" I learned way more than I thought I would! "
— Veggiegirl1975, 3/24/2012" I am just curious and this book was fun to read. I mean, the title alone... "
— Jason, 1/31/2012" Should be required bathroom reading in any household. It's a great conversation piece and is actually really informative. "
— Andy, 11/12/2011" I thought it was a hoot! It's a good one to keep in the bathroom. "
— Stacey, 9/5/2011" An interesting pick up and put me down book. I learned a lot. "
— Becki, 8/19/2011" trying too hard to be funny. "
— Danny, 8/4/2011" Some interesting "facts" but the I find the dialogue sections pointless and distracting. "
— Samuel, 7/31/2011" Somewhat common and random nuggets of information laced with informality and humor. An easy, light read. "
— Jason, 5/15/2011" Kind of bland. Maybe I am already into this trivia but very little of it was new to me. "
— Pkd88, 4/7/2011" It's funny... Yes, but there's actually some really good information in this book. Questions you want to know the answers to but are too afraid to ask. "
— Robert, 2/23/2011" Some interesting "facts" but the I find the dialogue sections pointless and distracting. "
— Samuel, 2/12/2011" Groundbreakingly appallingly bad. Truly awful. If Nicklas Bendtner was a book, he'd be worse than this. Not too much worse though. "
— QVT, 2/4/2011Mark Leyner is the author of several novels, including My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, and Et Tu, Babe. His nonfiction works include Why Do Men Have Nipples?, Why Do Men Fall Asleep after Sex?, and Let’s Play Doctor. Leyner also cowrote the movie War, Inc. with John Cusack.
Billy Goldberg, MD, 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.