Alfred Kazuo Ono is an obstetrician in private practice in Portland, Oregon. Raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he took his M.D. at the University of Minnesota. He completed his residency at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in 1975, and joined the faculty in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at OHSU. In this interview, he talks briefly about his involvement with OHSU, concentrating more on his experiences as a Japanese-American physician facing institutional racism. For much of the interview, Dr. Ono focuses on the Japanese-American community and various community groups. Dr. Ono touches briefly on Chinese traditional medicine and Eastern philosophy, and how they might benefit Western medicine. He shares his pessimism about the future of clinical medicine, noting the long-term relationship between physician and patient is rapidly becoming a relic of a bygone era.