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
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.View all by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg