Being Heard
How patients describe the attention given to their goals, expectations, questions, and concerns.
CHOOSING YOUR SURGEON
Your goals deserve careful consideration. So does the physician you choose.
You want a surgeon whose experience aligns with what you hope to achieve—and a practice that listens, explains clearly, and responds thoughtfully to your concerns.

TRC brings those priorities into your physician review. Your Care Planner organizes available professional information and relevant patient feedback, identifies questions that matter to your decision, and coordinates the next steps within your selected services.
Working in your interests means doing the preparation, taking your concerns seriously, and following through on the work entrusted to us.
Before information can be useful, it needs to relate to what you want to accomplish.
Your Care Planner begins with your desired results, the procedures you are considering, and what matters to you about the physician and practice. You may want particularly clear explanations, experience with concerns similar to yours, or a better understanding of communication after surgery.
TRC considers relevant patient feedback alongside credentials, training, procedure experience, and practice information. Whether you are comparing physicians or already have someone in mind, the review stays connected to your priorities.
Patient feedback can offer perspective on the relationship with a physician and their practice. Where relevant information is available, TRC looks for themes that deserve attention.
How patients describe the attention given to their goals, expectations, questions, and concerns.
Whether patients describe understandable discussions about recommendations, limitations, and what to expect.
Experiences with consultation arrangements, scheduling, staff communication, and reaching the appropriate person.
How patients describe follow-up arrangements and communication when questions or concerns arise after treatment.
Patient accounts may be incomplete or unverified. They provide perspective alongside professional information and your consultation; they do not establish clinical quality or predict your result.
If something you read raises a concern, bring it to your Care Planner. You do not need to investigate another patient’s experience or decide what it means on your own.
Your Care Planner reviews the concern alongside available information and identifies what needs clarification. Your Care Planner coordinates questions about practice arrangements with the appropriate team and prepares questions requiring the physician’s explanation for your clinical discussion.
An unanswered concern deserves attention before you decide how to proceed.
Keep a question or concern with your planning so you can return to it.
Enter a question to save it.
Saving keeps this item in Questions in My TRC. It does not automatically send it to your Care Planner or physician.
View My QuestionsThe consultation gives you an opportunity to experience the physician’s approach firsthand: how they listen, explain their recommendations, discuss limitations, and respond to your questions.
Afterward, your Care Planner reviews what felt clear and what remains unresolved. Within your selected services, TRC organizes follow-up questions, coordinates clarification about practice arrangements, or arranges another consultation when you want to consider an alternative.
You can take more time, seek another opinion, or decide not to proceed.
Your physician selection remains yours. TRC’s responsibility is to bring care and attention to the preparation behind that decision.

Tell us what you hope to achieve, what matters in your relationship with a physician, and what you need to understand before moving forward.
Your Care Planner will explain the review available through TRC and coordinate the work included in your services around those priorities.
Your Surgeon. Your Choice. Your TRC.