Billy Goldberg (born April 10, 1966) is a New York City
emergency medicine
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physician at the
NYU School of Medicine (
Bellevue Hospital and
New York University (NYU) Medical Center), where he is also an Assistant Professor and an Assistant Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He graduated from the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1992.
He has collaborated with writer
Mark Leyner
Mark Leyner (born 4 January 1956) is an American postmodernist author.
Biography
Mark Leyner was born in Jersey City, NJ to a Jewish family. He is the son of Joel and Muriel (née Chasan) Leyner, who had divorced by 1997. Leyner received a B. ...
on two books of answers to commonly pondered, though discomforting, medical questions. The two plan on making a third book to be released sometime in 2013. "That is if we're not dead from drinking all of those martinis and whiskey sours" said Mark Leyner when interviewed about the upcoming book.
The books are:
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''Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini'' (2005)
*''Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour'' (2006).
In September 2005, ''Nipples'' was #1 on the New York Times Bestselling Paperback Advice Books List.
Goldberg and Leyner attempt to answer questions such as, "What causes an ice cream headache?"; "Does it really take seven years to digest gum?"; and, "Why does your pee smell after eating asparagus?"
In an interview, Goldberg posits the philosophy behind the books: "We spend every moment walking around in this incredibly well-constructed but hard-to-figure-out machine that is our bodies. Everything we do — when we think, when we hear, when we smell, when we eat — there are these processes that are happening that we don’t understand. You can’t escape from having these moments thinking, ''how does it work?''"
"Sex and the sleepy guy"
Jane Weaver, NBC News, August 1, 2006
References
External links
*AOL Books
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br>Interview
with Mark Leyner
Mark Leyner (born 4 January 1956) is an American postmodernist author.
Biography
Mark Leyner was born in Jersey City, NJ to a Jewish family. He is the son of Joel and Muriel (née Chasan) Leyner, who had divorced by 1997. Leyner received a B. ...
and Billy Goldberg (doctor) on the book '''' from 2006.
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1966 births
Living people
American information and reference writers
American medical writers
American male non-fiction writers
American emergency physicians
New York University Grossman School of Medicine faculty
Albert Einstein College of Medicine alumni
Physicians from New York City