WASHINGTON, DC - Physicians, nurses, medical students, other health professionals, and reform activists from across the country will gather in Washington DC and march to Capitol Hill to demand comprehensive reform for our nation's broken health care system on Monday, March 22, 2010.

Timed to coincide with the most critical moment in the push for national health care reform, hundreds of health professionals from more than a dozen associations with a collective memberships in the hundreds of thousands will declare their support for reform on behalf of those who know the nation's health care system best - doctors, nurses, and patients.

WHO: Hundreds of Health Professionals

WHAT: Health Professionals March for Reform

WHEN: 11: 00 am --Rally at Freedom Plaza

11: 30 am -March to Capitol Hill down Pennsylvania Avenue

1: 00 pm -Media Conference with Congressional Leaders in Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216

Participating groups include: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Physicians, American Medical Student Association, American Medical Women's Association, American Muslim Health Professionals, Association of Clinicians for the Underserved, Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare, Doctors Council SEIU, Doctors for America, HIV Medicine Association, National Medical Association, National Physicians Alliance, National Physicians Alliance - New York, National Doctors Alliance/SEIU Healthcare, Nurse Alliance/SEIU Healthcare, Student National Medical Association, United Nurses of America-AFSCME."

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