Dr. David Abramson’s life began at the start of the twentieth century and ended at the beginning of the twenty-first. Reflections of a Physician in His Ninety-Seventh Year recalls his extraordinarily vivid memories of growing up in immigrant New York and New Jersey and the rough and tumble world of medicine as practiced in 1920s Brooklyn. In his career as a major in the U.S. Army during World War II, he was chief of a medical center that treated almost every case of trench foot among returning troops from the western and eastern fronts. His experiences there would become the major focus of his later work as a researcher and clinical specialist. Dr. Abramson provides a perspective on the development of medicine in the U.S. that spans a century. As an academic physician and researcher, he offers an inside look at how medical discoveries are made, while as a clinician, he shares the human side of medicine through his stories about his patients. He reflects on growing old and how to stay young in mind and spirit, characteristics he modeled for all who knew him. Readers will enjoy Dr. Abramson’s sometimes ironic observations of human behavior and his often irreverent views of medicine, then and now. His wry sense of humor and wonderful skills as a storyteller will keep them engrossed.