Summary: Our guest this week is David Himmelstein. He is a distinguished professor of public health and health policy in the <a href="http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/?faculty=david-himmelstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College</a>, <a href="http://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/13250/david-himmelstein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adjunct clinical professor</a> at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and lecturer in medicine at <a href="https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/33213" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Medical School</a>. He has served as chief of the division of social and community medicine at Cambridge Hospital.<br> David has authored or co-authored <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Himmelstein%20DU%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=6711726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 100 journal articles</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=David+Himmelstein&search-alias=books&field-author=David+Himmelstein&sort=relevancerank" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three books</a>, including widely cited studies of medical bankruptcy and the high administrative costs of the U.S. health care system. His <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6711726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1984 study</a> of patient dumping led to the enactment of <a href="https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EMTALA/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EMTALA</a>, the law that banned that practice. He is also a co-founder of <a href="http://www.pnhp.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Physicians for a National Health Program</a> and is a principal author of PNHP articles published in the JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine in conjunction with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler.<br> We talk about how he got his start in research by looking at patient dumping practices as a trainee, and how he views advocacy as a natural outgrowth of his research findings. We also talk about his work as a leader in advocacy for a national health insurance program and talk about a few common arguments against such policy changes. Lastly, he gives some advice for folks early in their career who would like to follow his model of research blended with advocacy.<br> If you like the show, please rate and review us on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ros-review-of-systems/id1191787816" target="_blank" rel="noopener">itunes</a>, <a href="https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I5b4cez4qnkeasrb6i6fzwpppxy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">google play</a>, or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/audrey-provenzano/ros-review-of-systems?refid=stpr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stitcher</a>, which makes the show easier for others to find; and share us on social media. We tweet at @rospodcast and are on facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/reviewofsystems" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.facebook.com/reviewofsystems</a>. Please drop us a line at <a href="mailto:contact@rospod.org">contact@rospod.org</a>. We’d love to hear from you, and thanks for listening.<br>
