Patient Rating
Reviewers describe Dr. Civitarese as personable, compassionate, and an excellent listener who takes time to understand symptoms and how pain affects daily life. He clearly explains diagnoses and treatment options, discusses conservative versus more aggressive approaches, involves patients in decision-making, and lays out practical follow-up plans. Patients say his explanations and bedside manner are reassuring, that he is knowledgeable and accessible, and that he provides thoughtful, individualized care.
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The patient rating score is an average of all responses on our patient experience survey. The rating averages scores for all questions about care from our providers. The scale on which responses are measured is 1 to 5 with 5 being the best score.
Patient comments are gathered from our patient experience survey and displayed in their entirety. For the convenience of our visitors, some patient comments have been translated from their original language into English while preserving their original meaning as accurately as possible. Patients are de-identified for confidentiality and patient privacy.
Board Certification and Academic Information
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David Civitarese was very engaged in finding out where the root cause of my pain is and helping me to plan for the least amount of time to get my issues addressed.
Anytime a health professional tells me he/she has learned something from me, I'm impressed! I'm not a healthcare professional, but I am the patient!
He is professional and I respect his input. I'm just frustrated that the only solution to my torn rotator cuff is physical therapy.
optimistic, very generous with time and information, flexible to my inquiries, caring and available
Dr C was helpful and "cheery!" He made sure I had the tests I needed.
A really good doctor that exudes competence. One of my favorite doctors.
I really liked him. I believe he will care for my a great deal.
Outstanding!
Dr Civitarese is personable, friendly, and exudes caring. He made a few suggestions which may or not help me long term, but explained what steps he felt were warranted at this time. At the follow-up, I will report results, and we may have to go to a Plan B. I feel as though I'm being helped to explore what will work best for me, and being free from pain long-term is the goal! Dr Civitarese is willing to look at alternatives because everybody is different.
I like this doctor. He listened, explained all the problems, the options available and included me in the decision.
He cares enough to have you help make decisions in your own care. Both him and Kim the MA are such nice people.
Dr David Civtarese is absolutely fantastic. I needed a doctor and he got me in that day. Explained everything I needed took seven x-rays. And explained physical therapy and other things that we could do in the future. Made sure I had a follow-up appointment. He is absolutely great he's 100 out of 100. Thank you so much! [NAME REMOVED]
Excelklent customer service and very outgoing and likeable
Really listens to his patients needs. Doesn't sugar coat things.
Dr. Civitarese is great, I'd recommended him to anyone.
Awesome care & he explained everything very well.
This is a great doctor on so many levels.
Dr. Civitarese is very knowledgable about back problems. He has an approachable and personable demeanor.
Listened very well. Told me exactly what was wrong. Treated me with respect
It's crucial having a health advocate you can trust when experiencing debilitating back pain that takes you away from your daily life. I feel like I have that in Dr. Civitarese as he took the time to not only listen and learn about my symptoms but also my daily life and how the pain had affected it. He then gave me a general diagnosis just from the physical exam and combining that along with all he learned about me as a person could prescribe and suggest multiple different avenues for pain relief. I felt he listened to my concern about wanting more than just a bandaid fix to the problem and was able to make physical therapy suggestions along with recommending a great book containing simple back exercises. It was refreshing having a doctor take the time to listen and treat me as a whole person instead of just treating the symptom with a medication.
Thank you Dr. C! You made me feel validated in hearing me and taking the time to show me where and how my pain was affecting me. I appreciate your time and definitely felt that the drive over was worth it. Thank you!
Thoughtful, efficient and professional. For a relatively new guy, impressive.
Very knowledgeable, very good listener. I appreciated the discussion on conservative versus aggressive approaches and assessing what made the most sense.
David was great although I went away in massive pain which is why I went to begin with. The rest of your staff was indifferent and sucked
Dr Civitarese is a very caring doctor with a great "bedside" manner. He explained the area of my injection very well, which gave me a sense of relief, because I had strange sensations I hadn't expected following the procedure. Dr Civitarese had also reviewed recent blood work from another Dr at the clinic, and provided his impressions and how they may or may not relate to my issues. That was very reassuring. As Dr Civitarese is replacing my previous orthopedic, I feel like I'm in good hands and will continue to have A+ care at the U of U. Thank you.