Dr. Jim Barry was — and I suppose will always be — a “Muni Kid.”
That means, like a lot of us, Jim grew up golfing at the Highland View Golf Course in the Jack Crowley days. He would get dropped off early in the morning and play golf at the Muni all day long.
The 1989 Butte High graduate was a very good golfer, too, playing for legendary coach Ed Yoe on a Butte High golf team that specialized in having fun. Jim raced on skis, and he was a receiver for the Butte High football team. As a junior in 1987, Jim caught a 13-yard touchdown pass from Todd Paffhausen in Butte High’s 29-6 win over Butte Central.
Today, Jim is a doctor in Denver. Of course, that statement does not even begin to describe what he does. He is the medical director of the University of Colorado Hospital, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. He is a professor with the Department of Pediatrics, Section of Neonatology at the University of Colorado Medicine.
He has been on the cutting edge of treating very sick infants for a quarter of a century.
Every day, Jim learns more about his profession, too. He is currently working to incorporate AI into the practice of medicine, and he is excited about the possibilities.
Before all that, though, Jim grew up on the Big Hole River in Divide, where he attended a two-room school house. The went to West Junior High School before attending Butte High, Montana State University and Creighton University Medical School. His education has never really stopped.
Listen in to this episode as Jim he talks about growing up on the river and at the Muni. Listen as he talks about how he cheered for his former Butte High teammates at the University of Montana, even though he was a student at MSU.
Listen in to hear Jim talk about his family, career and how he is still as excited about medicine as he has ever been. Listen why Jim is not ready to retire, and we are all glad that he did not listen to a high school test result and become a garbage man. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Intro music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to timmontana.com. For more from Bill Foley, go to ButteCast.com.
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