John Butler:
CLASS OF 1984
MacDonald Drive Junior High SchoolClass of 1984
St. john's, NF
John's Story
Life
After leaving high school I entered MUN hoping to become a physician, but got sidetracked by bad study habits. I met a wonderful woman, Leah Waye, who I later married in 1991. I entered the B.Comm program at Memorial, and settled into more effective learning.
At graduation in 1992 our first child was born, Spencer Butler. I worked with Ontario Hydro as a marketing specialist for a year and a half, during which time our second child, Laura, was born. Soon after that I left Hydro, dissatisfied with the work as a beaurocrat, and accepting abuy-out package I could not refuse. I did some consulting work in electrical energy management for about six months, before returning to Newfoundland to apply to medical s...Expand for more
chool. I completed a M.Sc. in medicine in 1996, and received my MD in 1999. I then completed a residency in Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario, and set up an independent family practice in Petrolia in 2001.
We currently live in Petrolia, Ontario, a town of 5000 near the Sarnia & London Ontario, and 20 minutes to the Michigan border. In addition to my family practice, I have served as VP medical staff, as well as on the Bluewater Health Board of Directors in Sarnia. I hold an Adjunct Professor of Medicine position at UWO and love to teach.
My family and I enjoy travelling whenever we get any free time, especially to the Caribbean. We also have a pet Havanese dog, named Oreo.
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