Dr. Siegfried IsemanI said when they handed me my diploma,I said to myself I will be goodAnd wise and brave and helpful to others;I said I will carry the Christian creedInto the practice of medicine!Somehow the world and the other doctorsKnow what’s in your heart as soon as you makeThis high-souled resolution.And the way of it is they starve you out.And no one comes to you but the poor.And you find too late that being a doctorIs just a way of making a living.And when you are poor and have to carryThe Christian creed and wife and childrenAll on your back, it is too much!That’s why I made the Elixir of Youth,Which landed me in the jail at PeoriaBranded a swindler and a crookBy the upright Federal Judge!
I said when they handed me my diploma,I said to myself I will be goodAnd wise and brave and helpful to others;I said I will carry the Christian creedInto the practice of medicine!Somehow the world and the other doctorsKnow what’s in your heart as soon as you makeThis high-souled resolution.And the way of it is they starve you out.And no one comes to you but the poor.And you find too late that being a doctorIs just a way of making a living.And when you are poor and have to carryThe Christian creed and wife and childrenAll on your back, it is too much!That’s why I made the Elixir of Youth,Which landed me in the jail at PeoriaBranded a swindler and a crookBy the upright Federal Judge!