I have been a patient of Dr. Reminick for six years. I came to her at the start of a long, hard reproductive path that has not produced what my partner and I hoped it would. The continuity of my therapeutic relationship with Dr. Reminick is what has kept me functional, working, and safe through years that would otherwise have undone me. A five-week handoff to a stranger is a rupture, I will feel it deeply and believe it will set back my progress.
The patients who depend on Dr. Reminick are not abstract. As her patient, I am writing this letter because I am one who can. Many of Dr. Reminick’s patients cannot fight for their mental health: women in the middle of high-risk psychiatric pregnancies, in the first months after a delivery that went wrong, responsible for new life and lost in a postpartum collapse, deep inside premenstrual dysphoric crisis, or carrying the deafening silence of a pregnancy that will never come. We are the vulnerable population you swore to protect, and we will suffer the most from this unfair and cruel policy UCSD department heads are imposing.
I am asking, on my own behalf and on behalf of the patients under UCSD Health’s care who do not have the ability, that UCSD Health stop, listen, CARE and reverse course.
— L.