Today was my first visit through a referral for his sports med expertise…read more He was knowledgeable, good bedside manner The student doctor who questioned me at beginning was Nice, thorough. They are a teaching facility as well. I would certainly recommend.

Dr. Babins was very attentive to my situation and discussed the possibilities of my diagnosis as it…read morewas a complex case. He didn't want to rush my referral to the surgeon in the event that it could be resolved without surgery. Once it was apparent that surgery was needed he was prompt to ensure a surgeon saw me in a timely fashion. He had residents in with him each time I had an appointment, they are learning from the best! I highly recommend Dr. Babins and his office.

I started seeing Dr. Hoffman in the spring of 2015. It is now almost 2017. I have my life back. I…read moream hopeful and optimistic for the future and I know my health and future is in MY hands thanks to choosing Dr. Hoffman to be my partner in my health. I suffered through horrible digestive problems no matter what I ate, very low energy to the point I could barely get out of bed, poor sleep, low immunity, random nerve pain, stubborn weight gain, foggy brain, and more, all of which affected my ability to work and live a normal life. When I would get sick I was sick for a month and could not recover from a simple cold. I was SO VERY TIRED and sick. Conventional doctors (who do have their place), did not help me. I wanted my hormones tested as well. With a fight, I finally got the testing but I was told there was nothing wrong with me and I should change my attitude. I was dismissed was mocked for trying to resolve my issues with diet and lifestyle. Unhappy with that, I researched more. I started seeing a naturopath then a homeopath who did help, but only very slowly and marginally with a wait-and-see approach by doing one test at a time, which I didn't have time for: I want to eventually be healthy enough to have a child, and I didn't know what hormonal issues I had. I needed know what was wrong with me yesterday. I found Dr. Hoffman though the IFM. Finally someone believed me, wanted to test me PROPERLY, understood nutrition, praised me for all the research I had done on my own, not mocked me by warning me against the dangerous advice of "Dr. Google". He doesn't push any beliefs, he TESTS first, and will never make any recommendations before testing to see what YOUR individual needs are. Gut, functioning, inflammatory markers, nutritional, antioxidant deficiencies, improper functioning, blood markers, entire hormonal system, stress levels, environmental factors, heavy metals, brain patterning, which is addressed with bio/neuro feedback training of the parasympathetic nervous system. He is like Dr. House - he WILL figure out your big health mysteries. He actually cares about his patients, taking files home to research and study. He spends his own time and money to go to conferences around the world by international experts on the leading edge of medicine. He is beyond just a doctor. He's generalized, specialized and fully integrated in so many things, he's like going to several specialists without referrals or waiting months for answer, or hoping that these specialists would have a meeting about you and just talk to each other. There's no wasting time going to several doctors hoping for progress. Time is something we can not get back and he never wasted mine. He got to the root of the CAUSES of what happened to me. Dr. Hoffman does't just give you a one time solution until the next time - he will give you the answer for all your life. I can speak with confidence about health issues. Now I actually know how to heal myself now and don't have to be reliant on Dr. Hoffman as I was in the beginning. Your homework he gives you is the easy part - because the hard work is done more than 16 hours a day in the brilliant mind of Dr. Hoffman, who unravels your health mysteries and gives you a chance to live to the fullest again and get your energy back like when you were young. None of my healing could be done without me realizing that IT'S ME who is in control of my health, IT'S ME who is the CEO of my body and future and I wisely chose an excellent doctor who understands that this is a partnership and an investment - and there is no greater investment than in your health. It's not fair that provincial health won't cover this, but there's no time to waste complaining about it. Because you can't get time back and they won't do anything about it in our lifetimes. This is clinic is pioneering in medicine. And because your money making potential is unlimited, it's always there and only limited by your choices about your life and health. I have hope our children will have this kind of medicine covered but for now it's up to us and it's Dr. Hoffman who is making my ability to have children possible by fixing the hormones to have them naturally, and my energy levels to run after them. Now I will not have to spend money on fertility treatments or procedures and still have a sick body. Now because of him I get the whole future opening up for me. That's priceless to me. He was and is still worth every dollar and minute I spent there, and will never ever see a conventional doctor without functional medicine certification from IFM. Thank you Dr. Hoffman!!! A quick note about the staff - they are truly amazing! All of them. All the nurses, all the front house team, the clinic manager, and Brain Treatment Centre shout out to the very competent Corey and Liz! With all my gratitude, (and that of my husband and future children) Lisa

Dr. Mah is exceptionally thorough and has the most courteous bedside manner you will encounter…read moreanywhere. Reception is always very friendly and accommodating.

Do I recommend Dr Carter? Absolutely!…read more Do I recommend going to this clinic? Absolutely not! As nice as Dr Carter is, his staff could definitely use some sensitivity training. The "It's our way or the highway" attitude leaves a lot to be desired. I'm now looking for a new Family Dr because of his staff!

When I first moved back to Canada I had to reinstate my Alberta health coverage, and in that time I…read morehad a couple of appointments with a doctor and had some lab work done. I had my knees x-rayed at an office in the Eaton's Centre and paid the fee for that service. When my coverage was approved, I was allowed to get reimbursement for the appointments I had three months prior to my application. When I returned to the ornery receptionist at the X-ray clinic she referred me to her head office. When I called them and explained my situation the person there was extremely friendly and had my case already on file. I received a reimbursement check with no problems. It was one of the smoothest transactions I have ever done with the health field. Thanks RCA for your quick payment and "easy to work with" demeanour.

I went to RCA the one in the market mall professional building to get my breast ultrasound …read more... first i was told a lady sonographer will do my examination and later they changed it to a guy..well he walked in gave me instructions on what will be done , i was comfortable at first and when the exam started it was just him and me in the room no female present ...still thats fine but what made me to stop and ask for a female was the comment he made towards my breast ...he said MY NIPPLES LOOK WONDERFUL so how professional is that for him to say that...so i stopped him right there and asked for a lady but he said non was available so had to re book.......to anyone who goes to RCA in market pls beware of this guy he is a bald brown guy with a look of east indian or middle eastern ..when i told this to the staff there they asked me to make a report to their head office ..i just feel violated now ....how can i trust any male medical professional ..it was just creepy ...pls pls next time ask for a lady to be present in the examination room

If you or your spouse has fertility issues this is where you'll probably end up being referred…read more I'll start by saying that there's a huge range of things that can happen with infertility so this review is just my experience and may not be the same for you. Before you even meet with a doctor you have to attend an information session. It's 2.5-3 hours in a theatre at the Foothills. They cover everything you can expect to go through during the fertility treatment process including the risks, costs, various drugs they use, range of treatment options (not just IVF), and counseling available. If you decide to proceed with fertility treatment after the info session you'll meet with one of their doctors to get into things in more detail than the info session. The doctor will give you and your spouse a bunch of requisitions to get some testing done on your baby making bits. For the guys this is pretty straight forward, just doing a blood test and giving a sample of your swimmers. Ladies, it's more intense having to do things like an HSG and other internal testing. We were lucky that before we went to meet with the fertility doctor my wife's OBGYN gave us the requisitions for both of us to get some of the tests done to help move things along while we waited for the referral to the fertility clinic to go through. Then when we met with the fertility doctor he just filled in the blanks as needed. We were assigned to Dr. Min but the program does have several doctors. From the very first meeting with Dr. Min he was excellent. We had lots of questions and he had all the answers. It was a world of difference talking to someone who specializes in infertility compared to talking to a GP or OBGYN. During our trip through the fertility program, Dr. Min became the president of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, so he really does know his stuff. After Dr. Min reviewed all of our results it was decided that IVF was our best course of treatment. Other options would have been a waste of money. The initial growing of eggs is what is going to cost you the big bucks. They'll give you the ranges of costs in the info session, but it all comes down to what drugs you have to take and how many. For us, it was around $14,000 to grow some eggs. This is also the hardest part to go through. There can be some serious side effects, you have to do self injections, etc. Of course I'm talking about the lady's side of things. Guys, you get to be there for moral support. In addition to the physical side effects and the empty empty wallet you might feel through this first stage, there is also an emotional impact. When you get close to the end of the growing stage they do ultrasounds every couple of days to see how the follicles are doing. For my wife, at one point they said that it looked like there wouldn't be any eggs to be harvested and gave her the option to stop. She decided to keep going and good thing she did. They ended up getting 7 eggs, 5 of which were viable. Holy emotional roller-coaster. Gentlemen, on harvest day you get to participate. That's when you have to "produce" your sample. While your lady has her legs up you'll be elsewhere in the building doing your part. Then, again, you're done, other than further emotional support for the rest of the process. They fertilize the eggs and then you go back 5 days later for implantation. It could be only 3 days if your eggs aren't as strong as they'd like. The doctors will put one or two blastocyst in (depending on your situation) and then you wait two weeks to see if you're pregnant. If you're not pregnant then you have to wait a few months before they try again. I believe it was that two menstrual cycles have to happen before they start another cycle. The good news is that the drugs aren't nearly anything like the growing of the eggs. The downside is that progesterone is a suppository multiple times a day. Additional rounds are about $2,000 each. I mentioned before that this can be a huge emotional roller-coaster. The good news is that there is free counseling while you are in the program. Use it. There can be a lot of stress and you and your spouse may have trouble dealing with it on your own. You're probably already frustrated that you've been trying to get pregnant naturally for however long. Now throw a financial burden, hormone injections, other drugs, and more waiting into the mix. It's hard. Through the process don't expect to always be seeing "your" doctor. They schedule the procedures when they need to be done, but all of the doctors rotate through so you may have someone else performing the procedures. When you have a follow-up or test results, etc. you will meet with your assigned doctor though. There's a ton more that could be added, but Yelp is cutting me off. I'll just leave this at, if you do decide to go through with fertility treatments, know you're in good hands here at the RFP.

This clinic is beyond frustrating. They operate with a voicemail system so it's not possible to…read moreever just call and talk to a nurse. You leave a message and they call you back. This is really inconvenient for me as I'm not able to have my phone on me at work. The "take a number" system for appointments is ridiculous. They told me it's because they need to get everyone's bloodwork done in the morning. This doesn't make sense, and my friends who have had IVF in Vancouver confirmed this is not how it's done there...they just book an appointment time as one would expect. I went all the way to the transfer phase and literally the only person at the clinic who asked me how I was doing was a very kind lab person who took my blood. No nurse or doctor asked me how I was doing the whole time, they just provided the number for a psychologist if needed. I don't need a psychologist at this point but a "how are you doing?" would be nice. I also question their technology and methods. They claim they use "tried and true" procedures but I think they really are just behind with the science. Unfortunately this is our only real option in Calgary but if you have the means I'd do your research and find a clinic elsewhere with better statistics and better client care.