A retired neurologist, Dr. William Fields has seen his lifelong career in medicine parallel the history of the Texas MEdical Center. He has served in a senior capacity in each of the three major teaching institutions in the center and on the staffs of virtually all of the health care facilities. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Dr. Fields graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1938. After one year at a Vanderbilt University affiliated hospital in Nashville, he went to Montreal, Canada, two months before Hitler"s armies invaded Poland. In 1941 Dr, Fields entered the Royal Canadian Navy and was in active service until May 1946. He then spent three years in St. Louis at Washington University and Barnes Hospital before coming to Houston before coming to Houston in 1949 to join the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine. At that time he was one of three board certified neurologists in the state.In 1967, he transferred to the University of Texas in Dallas, where he remained for less than two years. When the new medical school of the University of Texas opened its doors in Houston, he became one of its first faculty members. From that date until he retired in 1992, Dr. Fields paints a portrait, not only of the history and growth of Texas Medical Center, but of many who served with considerable distinction in their chosen field.