Dr. Toni Lewis, president of The Committee of Interns and Residents of SEIU Healthcare, joined 149 other doctors for an event in the Rose Garden with President Barack Obama on Monday. The President re-iterated that doctors, who see patients daily, are some of our strongest supporters of reform, because they see first-hand the damage caused by our broken system.

Concurrently, 20 CIR/SEIU doctors descended on Capitol Hill in their white coats to thank their members of Congress for supporting comprehensive health care reform. They came from chapters in Massachusetts, New York, Florida and California with one clear voice: doctors support health care reform this year, because our patients can't wait.

The doctors attended a "National Grand Rounds" in Union Station - a panel discussion for physicians and medical students on what is and is not in the health reform proposals moving through Congress. For 45 minutes, they witnessed in a lively discussion moderated by Dr. Arthur Kellermann, the Associate Dean for Health Policy at Emory University School of Medicine and a former co-chair of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance, and had their questions answered by policy staff from the White House Office of Health Reform, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Afterward, CIR/SEIU residents spent the afternoon on the Hill, advocating for real reform that will make a difference for their patients and in the safety-net hospitals they work in. They also took the opportunity to present the Congressional staffers with posters based on the ad which had previously run in Roll Call, attesting to the support of half a million doctors for health care reform.