Dr. Bronston said he always wanted to be a doctor and wanted to serve. Even as a child, he had a yearning to care for others in a very deep and unconditional level. He was born in Los Angeles in 1939 and raised in Beverly Hills. His father, Samuel Bronston, was a major movie producer with films such asthe Kingof Kings and El Cid. He chose to enroll at USC Medical School in 1961 because of its preeminence for clinical medicine, and he was interested in serving poor people. But he was ini- tially disappointed by what he was taught. Now, he is a leader in the CA Physicians for National Health Program andwas acontributing author forthe unsuccessful 1994 California single-payer initiative, Prop. 186. He is a graduate of USC Medical and did his Internship at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. In 1975, in California, hebecame the medical director for the Department ofDevelopmental Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services for the state of California for more than two decades. He became progressively involved with the emerging disability rights activists in order to connect them to a historic anti-institutional agenda. He became a clinical physi- can at a state-supported institution for children and adults with intellectual disability, Willowbrook State School, in 1970. The inhumane conditions shocked him, and he helped expose what was happening at the institution, which later closed due to the family outcry and a federal class action lawsuit he helped organize.