Hi, my name is Dr. Jim Davis.
I have been very blessed and lucky in my life. I grew up in Teton valley Idaho with a great family and great friends that are still my friends and in my life. The rich culture and the isolation that growing up here I am sure helped to form a lot of my core values and who I am. My parents were great people and although my dad died at a very young age, he imparted to me a positive philosophy of life and influenced me to live a life of helping people. We spent a lot of time together as I worked with him every day on a milk route that we had on the west side, hauling milk from the dairies to the cheese factory in Victor. We had a relationship with all the people and I think that is where I developed a love for people. Although I was very shy (and still am in a lot of ways), watching the interaction of people in everyday life was of much benefit.
After my Dad passed on, I continued to haul milk to the cheese factory in victor and then later in Driggs when the Victor factory closed. I really miss going into the big refrigerated room and cutting cheese for the people on the milk route and a slim slice for me to eat as well. My dad had started the first bulk route in the valley and after his death, my mother continued to pick up the bulk milk and haul it to Driggs and then later to Ririe. She insisted that I go do something with my life and I went to college in Rexburg for 2 semesters. Eventually getting married to a girl from Canada and moving there for about 4 years.
I had a friend that was going to school to be a dentist and he called and told me he was going to St Louis to school. I said “oh, there is a dental school there?’ He said there was but he was going to chiropractic school. I had been to a chiropractor one time in his house in Canada and really had no idea what it was. I had a painting business in Canada and had some time between jobs so I told him that I would help move him to St Louis and that trip was my first real exposure to Chiropractic.
A student there, Grayden Bridge, was attending Logan College of Chiropractic and although I knew of him, had never met him. He was gracious enough to take us on a tour of the school, explaining chiropractic and that the nerves are the main communication channels of the body and that chiropractic is aiding that communication system so the body can live to its potential.
I think that most times, an occupation chooses you and there was a certain moment when I knew that is what I wanted to do.
When we returned to Canada, I immediately started to prepare to start getting pre-requisites to enter Chiropractic school. 6 months later I had moved back to the states and was in school. When I finished at Idaho State, we moved to St. Louis to begin Chiropractic school.
Those years were hard as I had a family to support and was still required to carry 32 credit hours per trimester, but some 4200 hours of graduate school later, they gave me a sheep skin (really it was paper) with a doctorate degree on it.
Since that time, I have had the best patients in the world and have been privileged to be friends with thousands of people. Being in practice for over 35 years has afforded me the opportunity to continue to learn things that help my patients. I have had a great life and have done many things that enriched my life, including practicing in Australia and being able to take my lovely wife Lora with me that last few years.
At that time, I returned to the place that was always home to me. Teton Valley. I am so glad to be home but would not trade the experience of most of the other places that I have had the opportunity to live and as always, it is the people that make a place. Yes, I have had a lucky life.
Now, I have the opportunity to have a practice in Driggs and once again, I have all the best patients.
So, to all the people who have put their trust in me and who have enriched my life, THANK YOU!
PS: I look forward to meeting and helping many more people in the coming years.