Smorgun is HORRIBLE! Do NOT trust him, he is IMMORAL and it would have been better if we never met him. Save yourself. Go see anyone else.

Submitted Feb. 18, 2024

Dr. Shmorgun is a thoughtful and compassionate doctor. He is always kind, punctual, helpful and knowledgeable. He always makes us feel heard and is happy to answer any and all questions. We are very grateful to him and the staff of the OFC for the excellent level of care.

Submitted May 18, 2021

Dr. Shmorgun is a wonderful doctor. He’s kind, super funny, and always makes time for my myriad of questions. He’s also really good at setting expectations, which I needed! He always stops to say hi when I’m at the clinic and even joked with my husband about his COVID beard when we had a virtual consult. He’s a wonderful, caring doctor. I get that his sense of humour and demeanour is not everyone’s bag of tea but it totally works for me.

Submitted April 22, 2021

My experience with Dr. Shmorgun was limited, but all great. More than him I really want to give props to the nurses he works with they were all fantastic throughout my time with the Ottawa Fertility Centre.

We got referred to the OFC after trying for a year with no success. We had a lengthy initial consult and Dr. Shmorgun where we detailed our medical histories, he suspected he had a good idea what the issue likely was, but wanted to cover all the bases so he set us up for a ton of tests. Our experience with him was honestly great, very thorough, thoughtful and caring. I felt no sense of judgement or bias from him which is always a concern for me when I meet new doctors.

As luck would have it we actually got pregnant naturally right before we were scheduled to do all the fertility testing. Even so the OFC handled all my care for the first 10 weeks, they performed my first ultrasound and the wonderful nurses answered all my questions when I had some complications early on. Before referring me to an OB to continue my care Dr. Shmorgun had another appointment with me to talk about my pregnancy so far and talk over any questions I had before leaving the OFC.

Everyone at the OFC was great! Dr Shmorgun, the nursing team, the ultrasound tech, everyone was super friendly and helpful and re-assuring.

Submitted Sept. 8, 2020

One of the most compassionate, amazing physicians I have encountered. Dr. Shmorgun is extremely knowledgeable and I’ve always felt super comfortable with his plans..thank you!

Submitted Oct. 31, 2019

Dr. Shmorgun where do I start well I was referred to him last year so I went threw the tests and my husband went threw a bunch of tests which everything came back normal and nothing was wrong. well when we went in to office for our appointment with the doctor he said straight out i was not able to have a IVF because I only have 9 possible eggs a month, and then never really explained the whole nine egg thing I was balling in the office and my husband was floored and I got mad at him . even though he was telling me it was ok. then decided to say my only option was an iui which he then told me its only 17% effective like an IVF has a higher effective rate. anyways he then told me there was no reason at all to be back in his office. he never once talked about when we should be having sex or anything. right before that appointment, we thought we miscarried and then I go into that. WE then decided to try on our own for a few months. And now I decided to go see another doctor so now that Dr. Shmorgun is off for two months I am able to speak to another doctor. IF you have an option go for another doctor. He could have shown more empathy then what he did

Submitted Oct. 22, 2019

I so much regret wasting my time with this doctor! He does not care about the outcome of his treatment AT ALL. I begged him to review the treatment plan and to make some changes since that treatment was still unsuccessful after several attempts, but he declined. I had to go to another clinic and got pregnant from the first attempt with another doctor (and a very different treatment approach that he suggested).

Submitted Aug. 17, 2019

IMMORAL! I just found out that he made me go through a uterine biopsy even though my ultrasounds and medical history absolutely did NOT indicate any risk or possibility of cancer. He made me go through the pain and fear for no valid medical reason. Horrible bed side manner, does not care for his patients' emotional turmoil. He gave my partner and I some life altering news as if he was talking about the weather. He insisted on us using donor sperm without even allowing us the time to consider our options, or even spoke about other options. He didn't bother explain the implications of the infertility until we asked and prodded, after doing some online research. Please avoid this doctor for your own physical and mental health.

Submitted Aug. 7, 2019

His staff are fantastic, his knowledge is current, we went through alot at OFC and he is always compassionate, cautiously optimistic, on time, never felt pressured to take up less of his time ever and we couldn't be happier being his patients.

Submitted Aug. 7, 2019

Biased and judgemental medical care. Do not use if you are a SMC. His assumption from the start was that I would only want one child. His medical care was based on flawed research and data without using common sense and basic biology. He was fair in setting expectations, and was not unkind, but was far too hesitant and slow in making important decisions, and had to be prompted. The only decision he made quickly was based on poor data, since disproven. I believe his unconscious biases have made my family smaller and deprived my child of a potential sibling. I hope he has changed his outlook since this time, as this remains one of my deepest disappointments in life.

Submitted July 25, 2019