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2006
by Gramedia Pustaka Utama
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151 pages
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9792218106
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Ratusan pertanyaan yang tak berani Anda tanyakan pada dokter?
Sebenarnya banyak orang yang ingin bertanya tentang hal-hal yang berhubungan ...more
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Read in January, 2006
recommends it for:
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I picked this book up a couple of years ago because the title was just too good to pass up. "Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini" was a quick and hilarious read. Fascinating questions like "Why does sweat stink and stain?" and "Why do people seem more attractive to you when you are drunk?" are just two of the burning questions presented. Surprisingly enough, the answers (OK MOST of the answers) are truly...more
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Read in January, 2005
recommends it for:
people who want to stop the expression of brilliance in exchange for quenching a thirst for trivia
You know, this book is funny. Leyner is writing it. Therefore it is funny. It is really a 3 star book. But I'm punishing it with one star. Why?
Leyner is a modern genius. Tetherballs at Bougainville is a masterpiece. My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is also a masterpiece. I waited SEVEN long years for him to write something else. Seven long years of silence. But market forces or focus groups or the Devil himself or Americans with hunger for medical trivia have responsibility for this ...more
Leyner is a modern genius. Tetherballs at Bougainville is a masterpiece. My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is also a masterpiece. I waited SEVEN long years for him to write something else. Seven long years of silence. But market forces or focus groups or the Devil himself or Americans with hunger for medical trivia have responsibility for this ...more
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Did I miss something here? I read the whole book (okay, ALMOST the whole book -- I admit I skipped over the nonsensical instant messaging transcipts that seem to make up the bulk of the text, as well as the silly chapter intros) and I wasn't floored. Or even wowed. Or even that impressed.
There's nothing in this book that you can't find out on your own with an Internet hookup and a brain cell or two to rub together. Most of it is rehashed medical journal articles, and the rest is puf...more
There's nothing in this book that you can't find out on your own with an Internet hookup and a brain cell or two to rub together. Most of it is rehashed medical journal articles, and the rest is puf...more
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Read in March, 2008
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not my mom and sis, who both told me it suckedrecommends it for: unclever fratboys
Totally lame. I thought it would be interesting. But mostly they just ask a bunch of interesting questions.. and manage to make the answers boring. Probably because a lot of the time the answer is like "we aren't sure" and then they make some smarmy dick jokes about it. They are like... unclever fratboys (is this redundant?). And they are adults (one is a doctor, allegedly), so it's even more unnaceptable. I'm not even giving this non-fiction shelving because, it was mostly just smarm...more
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Read in January, 2008
I was disappointed with this book. I'd heard it was so funny, and had some sort of wisdom or at least interesting information. NPR adored it, of course.
I don't think the two authors are funny at all, especially the "gross" stuff (see the recipe for snot); a lot of the questions were idiotic (Can you die from chasing pop rocks with coke) or not compelling (who, when they have a doctor all to themselves at a party for a half hour or so, would really choose to ask Should you ...more
I don't think the two authors are funny at all, especially the "gross" stuff (see the recipe for snot); a lot of the questions were idiotic (Can you die from chasing pop rocks with coke) or not compelling (who, when they have a doctor all to themselves at a party for a half hour or so, would really choose to ask Should you ...more
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Read in November, 2007
Very much along the lines of Father Knows Less, which I read earlier this year, Mark Leyner who is a writer and Billy Goldberg, a doctor, set forth to answer everyone's weirdest medical questions, things that it would seem doctors get asked by really drunk party guests. The book is a lot more humor than it is too factual, but you do learn a lot about the human body and why men have nipples :^) The photographer was quizzing me last night while we were taking the pictures, and I felt pretty darned...more
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Read in November, 2005
Save your money and skip this title. There are some interesting questions here that you might have wanted to know the answers to – and a lot of debunking of popular health myths is in order. If the book were only just queries and answers it would have been fine, but the authors also thought they had to be funny. And so, as filler, there are all of these conversations – loosely related and totally unrelated to the subject matter, that appear in between the Q&A. Skip them all. They aren...more
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Read in November, 2008
Buku ini bermaksud lucu tapi aku jarang ketawa hu hu.Informasi yang ada sering kali kuanggap ga penting banget walaupun ada beberapa yang ku-bookmark. Mungkin mitos-mitos yang 'dijawab' di buku ini kebanyakan hanya populer di negeri asalnya atau memang aku yang kurang gaul saja. Alhasil buku yang tidak tebal ini kuselesaikan dalam waktu 3 minggu.
Satu hal yang cukup aneh. Aku baca buku ini paralel dengan Audition - Barbara Walters. Dan di saat yang bersamaan aku membaca soal prime min...more
Satu hal yang cukup aneh. Aku baca buku ini paralel dengan Audition - Barbara Walters. Dan di saat yang bersamaan aku membaca soal prime min...more
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Read in January, 2009
this book came about because a doctor noticed that everytime he went to a party and people found out he was a physician, they would ask very embarrassing or intimate questions that they were affraid to ask their own doctor. so, he teamed up with a writer and answered all of the crazy questions people wanted to know but were too affraid to ask until a few martinis later.
why do old people grow hair in their ears?
how do poeple in wheelchairs have sex?
why does asparagus make ...more
why do old people grow hair in their ears?
how do poeple in wheelchairs have sex?
why does asparagus make ...more
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Read in January, 2006
recommends it for:
NO ONE!
This was HORRIBLE! Perhaps the worst book I have ever read! I would have stopped at the beginning if it wasn't for book club. I kept hoping it would get better but it was just thoroughly awful through & through!
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Yes, I read this and thought it was so funny and educational. Just so you know, there is a fair amount of it that is truly off-color. There. You've been warned!
Of course I love all things medicine. These two guys, one an er doc and the other a tv writer, answer tons of questions that we are all very curious about such as "Is it really dangerous to crack you knuckles?" or "Does it really take seven years to digest chewing gum?" or Is the old adage "Beer be...more
Of course I love all things medicine. These two guys, one an er doc and the other a tv writer, answer tons of questions that we are all very curious about such as "Is it really dangerous to crack you knuckles?" or "Does it really take seven years to digest chewing gum?" or Is the old adage "Beer be...more
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Read in November, 2005
I’d probably buy this book to enliven parties of my own. I think it would make great “bathroom reading,” actually. Some of the explanations are a bit too technical for non-medical personnel, but laypeople will find the vast majority easy to understand (if a bit disgusting). The authors do a surprisingly good job of keeping the mood light and funny while providing some real answers. I especially like the disclaimer on the first page, advising readers to never answer any of the questions you...more
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Read in January, 2006
Bought this book at the airport, to while away time inflight because I forgot to bring any non-workrelated reading materials :p
I'm always a fan of random and trivial information and this book is filled with just that. Some I hadn't even considered, some I already knew the answers to, and some are probably made up by the authors. But some explanations just wasn't satisfying and the text was funny and all, but sometimes verging on annoying.
Oh well, for a book picked up just because o...more
I'm always a fan of random and trivial information and this book is filled with just that. Some I hadn't even considered, some I already knew the answers to, and some are probably made up by the authors. But some explanations just wasn't satisfying and the text was funny and all, but sometimes verging on annoying.
Oh well, for a book picked up just because o...more
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Read in February, 2008
recommends it for:
smug people with bad taste
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Do you really know why men have nipples? Is it bad to crack your knuckles? What causes shrinkage? This and soooo much more are answered in this book. As Goldberg explains, these are questions that many doctors wind up being asked when people at parties discover that there is a doctor in their midst. The book is divided into sections based on topic and each section is prefaced with a portion of a continuing story of a party attended by both Goldberg and Leyner and how the topics in the subsequent...more
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I read a lot of interesting fact books and this book and their sequel are by far the best 2 I've read. They go through all the typical crazy questions and myths out there but best of all they catagorize them and they either research what they can to answer the questions or find the people who do know the answers and give you the answer in a easy to understand but smart way. consider this book the urban myth scientific bodily function version of mythbusters.
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Read in August, 2008
yup, this is the book to refer to when you have stupid questions pop into your head when you are in the morning shower (come on, you have wondered where poo's unique color comes from...)
definitely a way to keep students interested when they say "biology sucks...why do I have to take it?"
I have also learned that doctors' private thoughts are VERY scary indeed....have crossed doctors off of the dating list...
definitely a way to keep students interested when they say "biology sucks...why do I have to take it?"
I have also learned that doctors' private thoughts are VERY scary indeed....have crossed doctors off of the dating list...
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Read in October, 2008
I like books that answer questions that everyone has but thinks there are no answers to. (Are there questions that have no answers? Isn't "no one knows" an answer?)
I really like the question and answer part of this book. All the questions are directed at an emergency room doctor, so deal with the human body, sickness, disease, sex, all things I find fascinating.
I did not like the parts of the book where the doctor and the his co-author are sending each other stu...more
I really like the question and answer part of this book. All the questions are directed at an emergency room doctor, so deal with the human body, sickness, disease, sex, all things I find fascinating.
I did not like the parts of the book where the doctor and the his co-author are sending each other stu...more
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Read in May, 2006
recommends it for:
really bored people, intellectual dullards
dude. in my defense, i only read this because it was laying on the coffee table at my house. one of my roommates' mom's had bought it for hir for whatever weird reason--it's one of those books that is often stacked next to the cash register at bookstores because it supposedly is a good all-purpose gift for people in your life that like to read books. it's not really a book that anyone would seek out if left to their own devices. i read it because i was bored, didn't have anything new to read, & ...more
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Read in January, 2005
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This is an amusing book. My father was a country doctor and he got asked all kinds of crazy questions by people. People always were asking him to diagnose something at church, football games, weddings, parties, hunting trips…
It is a quick and amusing read. Plus you might learn a few things you didn’t know you wanted to know.
It is a quick and amusing read. Plus you might learn a few things you didn’t know you wanted to know.
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