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"It's Probably Nothing" -- Stories Of A Vermont Doctor

Tuesday, 11/29/11 Noon and 7pm

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By Jane Lindholm, Produced by Samantha Fields

Local doctor and author Beach Conger has just published his third book, "It's Probably Nothing: More Adventures of a Vermont Country Doctor."
Beach Conger has been practicing medicine for 44 years. For 34 of those, he's been in Windsor, Vermont, with a brief hiatus in inner city Philadelphia. Along the way, Conger has adapted to a myriad of changes, in medical knowledge and technology, and in patient expectations. He's also met plenty of characters, many of whom now populate his newest collection of short stories. We talk to Conger about the book, "It's Probably Nothing: More Adventures of a Vermont Country Doctor," the differences in practicing in the inner city versus in rural Vermont, and what he loves so much about practicing medicine.

Also on the program, with the New Hampshire primary just six weeks away Valley News political editor John Gregg updates us on how New Hampshire voters are sizing up the Republican presidential candidates, and the impact of the Union-Leader's endorsement of Newt Gingrich over the weekend.

And the poet Ruth Stone died this month at her home in Ripton. She was 96. Stone was a Vermont Poet Laureate, a National Book Award Winner and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. We listen back to a 2007 VPR interview with her, recorded just after she was named Poet Laureate.

 

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Analysis: Where Things Stand Six Weeks Before The N.H. Primary

With the New Hampshire primary just six weeks away Valley News political editor John Gregg looks at how New Hampshire voters are sizing up the Republican presidential candidates, and the impact of the Union-Leader's endorsement of Newt Gingrich over the weekend.

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Celebrating The Life Of Poet Ruth Stone

Poet Ruth Stone died this month at her home in Ripton. She was 96. Stone was a Vermont Poet Laureate, a National Book Award Winner and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She spoke to VPR's Jane Lindholm in 2007.

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