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candy striper

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can·dy strip·er (knd strpr)
n.
A volunteer worker in a hospital.
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In ninth grade, he began pursuit of that career by volunteering as a candy striper at UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus in Worcester.
Mark of excellence; St. John's senior, an aspiring doctor, receives ... by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Bean CANDY STRIPER Bubble gum stripes make any day sweeter.
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Salamon doesn’t seem to have embarked on her Maimonides adventure with any particular passion for the desperate, raw world of health and hospitals—a fact that she admits on the first page: “While I had visited hospitals often enough for the usual reasons, and had even been a candy striper in high school,” she writes, “I had no special interest in them.
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