b'BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURESvolunteering for Big Brothers,Emergency medicine, continuesThe orthopedic side of this is to Big Sisters and the EdmontonButcher, really resonated withtake out hardware, clean it out, and Christmas Bureau, doinghim, allowing him to connecteventually reinstall it. But we were occasional shifts at a Studentwith people on a deeper level. Indoing nothing to help this man Wellness clinic that serves mostlySaskatoon theres a large inner-citywith substance use, and I felt we Indigenous people, joining ABLEDpopulation and on one of my rota- really needed to work with him to (Advocates for Bringing Light totions I remember this particularhelp address addiction, explains and Education on Disabilities), andindividual. He was an IndigenousButcher. I spent a lot of time on creating Athlete Allies, a groupman in a wheelchair who struggledthat rotation trying to counsel that that promotes inclusivity forwith addiction and had come into LGBTQ2 athletes.the hospital for his 13 thsurgery inman and talk to him. This isnt 14 months, says Butcher.something typically focused on by Butcher also found time to playan orthopedic surgeon, but there football for both the EdmontonThe purely orthopedic approach toare other areas that do, and I felt Huskies and the U of S Huskiesthis patient was a frustrating one.myself gravitating towards that.teams, and still succeeded in making the honour roll at the College of Kinesiology during his undergraduate years. While it wasnt always easy and there were competing demands he had to balance, a lot of good came from it, says Butcher. Classes would end at 4:30 p.m., and practice started at 5:00 p.m. You would finish practice and then go straight home to eat and start studying again, he notes. One of the most challenging times Butcher can recall was a football game against Winnipeg. I had a mid-term on the Friday, but I was injured on the field and separated my shoulder, he explains. I was back on the bus home studying from 12:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m., laying on the floor of the bus with a sepa-rated shoulder. Then I got home, slept for two hours, and went to school to write the test. EMERGENCY MEDICINEFollowing his kinesiology studies, Butcher applied to the University of Saskatchewans College of Medicine. Initially interested in orthopedic surgery, he quickly real-ized his interests would be better served in emergency medicine. When I finished med school and applied for orthopedic surgery, I loved it. However, at the end of the year I really didnt love being in the operating room, so I applied for a transfer to emergency medicine, says Butcher.2022indspiration57'