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[edit] Moved from article until sourced

The following section contradicts what Lennon himself has said about the subject of the song. Hence I think it needs a source, preferably a a more reliable one than, say, the Beatles songfacts site ([1]), which could have borrowed the info from us anyway.--194.145.161.227 21:48, 11 December 2006 (UTC)


"Dr. Robert" was written about a New York physician who became known for injecting "vitamin" shots — laced with amphetamines — to his celebrity patients [citation needed] . This Dr. Robert Freymann was a 60-year old German physician who boasted having 100 celebrity patients in the 1960s. He lost his license in 1968 and was removed from the New York Medical Society in 1975. He died in 1987.

Dr. Robert has also been incorrectly identified by several sources as a Dr. Charles Roberts but this name was an alias given by Edie Sedgwick — the anorexic "superstar" in several of Andy Warhol’s films — to protect the identity of another doctor who was rather liberal with dispensing drugs.

It has also been rumoured that the song is about the Beatles' friend and art dealer Robert Freeman. Others believe it may be a reference to Bob Dylan, who first introduced the Beatles to marijuana.

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