Thank you, Dr. Li, for all you’ve done for our family.

My late husband was Dr. Lis patient first. Several years before, he had been diagnosed with a rare abdominal malignancy, pseudomyxoma peritonei, and had had numerous surgeries and treatments. When our internist retired, he said, Theres only one person in the DC area that Id recommend for you, Ted Li. And, how right he was! Later, I became Dr. Lis patient, too.

Dr. Li guided my husbands care for a number of years, when it became increasingly complex. He is a superb diagnostician, an able coordinator of other specialists and, above all, an incredibly compassionate clinician. He is so skilled at listening to patients (and their families) and extracting important information from those conversations. During an appointment with him, Dr. Li makes you feel like he has all the time in the world just for you!

In the last three years of my husbands life, his disease had impacted almost every system and he was very sick and frail. He remained at home and we did not have hospice care. But we had Ted Li! A handful of times when I sensed my husband was in crisis, I called Dr. Lis office and said, I have to talk to him now. And, that always happened! More than once, he called ahead to the ED and paved the way for my husbands admission.

Our son started college just two years before his father died. One time when he was home on break, he asked to see Dr. Li, on his own, to talk about his father. No questions were asked when we made the appointment; my son came home expressing that he felt better after talking to Dr. Li. I always felt that Dr. Li understood the toll my husbands extended, life-threatening condition took on me and on our family.

Dr. Li joined MDVIP not long after my husband died. I remember receiving the letter asking whether I wanted to become a member. There was no question! I would never have considered giving up Dr. Lis and his wonderful staff!

I work for the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care in Bethesda, MD. A guiding principle of our organization and its work is the critical importance of authentic and meaningful partnerships between clinicians and patients and their families. We believe those partnerships are essential to quality care. More than once when Ive done a presentation, I summarize my own experience with Dr. Li as the embodiment of care that is excellent, compassionate, and built on partnership.

Thank you, Dr. Li, for all youve done for our family.

Deborah D.