Harold Kay was a urology specialist who was raised in the Bay Area and very active in community medical organizations. Kay was born in Nebraska, but raised in Berkeley from the age of three. He received his undergraduate degree in international relations from UC Berkeley, and his medical degree from UCSF in 1935, having transferred there from Creighton University. He served in the Navy as a doctor and quarantine officer in the American Samoa from 1941–1944. He then returned to the East Bay and practiced urology in various hospitals. In this interview, Kay discusses the above as well as his childhood in Berkeley and the 1923 fire; postdoctoral studies at Edinburgh University; Judaism and Yehudi Menuhin; local, state, and national medical association leadership roles; his work with Alameda County Blood Bank, Blue Cross of California, Alameda County Mental Health Commission, emergency medical services for Alameda and Contra Costa counties; and his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee in 1974 on health insurance.