Billy Goldberg

Billy Goldberg (born 1966) is a New York City emergency medicine 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 on two books of answers to commonly pondered, though discomforting, medical questions. The books are: 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...