Hiram Stedrock sat in the examining room worried about a family member in distress. Her name was Gloria. She was a cow. When Dr. Beach Conger returns to Vermont, after several years in Philadelphia, he reenters a medical practice that is worlds away from big-city medicine. In It’s Probably Nothing, Conger learns that his patients—from Pauline Pontifact to Uptah Corless—need him more than ever to teach them how to navigate the modern medical maze. This collection of stories showcases Conger’s irreverent view into the doctor’s role and his profound empathy for the characters he encounters along the way. Conger also examines how medicine—and problems with our current health-care system—can remain the same and yet feel vastly different whether you’re a small-town farmer or an urban resident. Less