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probation
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Instead of answering to "Probationer" (in the hospital) and "Novitiate" (in the convent), they could now be addressed in both places as "Sister."†
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He summoned the probationer, a young, nervous Eritrean girl.
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probationer = a person being tried out as a new employee who does not have all the privileges of a regular employee
"Ask her"—the terrified probationer's lips were moving as she tried to by-heart his message—"kindly ask her, if ...."†
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His eyes were free to look at the probationer, since his finger was now sounding the boy's insides better than any pair of eyes.†
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The probationer waited for the rest of his message, while Stone drew the wormlike appendix out of the incision and straightened up like a fisherman who'd reeled his quarry onto the deck.†
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Stone held up his right hand for the probationer's inspection.†
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THE PROBATIONER IN Operating Theater 3 on the day of Sister Mary Joseph Praise's labor and our birth was a pretty—no, a beautiful—young Eritrean girl.†
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The probationer hurried off to find my mother, not pausing to question the propriety of the message she carried to Sister Mary Joseph Praise.†
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At the time of our birth the probationer was not yet eighteen, with a tendency to confuse penmanship and keeping a neat medical record (and thereby pleasing Matron) with the actual care of patients.†
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Being seniormost of the five probationers in Missing's nursing school had been a matter of pride for her, and most days she managed to push to the back of her mind the fact that her seniority was only because she was repeating her year, or, as Dr. Ghosh put it, because she was "on the long-term plan."†
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Orphaned as a child by smallpox, which had also left a faint lunar landscape on her cheeks, the probationer had from a young age addressed her self-consciousness by becoming excessively studious, a trait encouraged by the Italian nuns, the Sisters of the Nigrizia (Africa), who raised her in the orphanage in Asmara.†
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The young probationer displayed her studiousness as if it were not merely a virtue but a God-given gift, like a beauty spot or a supernumerary toe.†
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You could say the probationer's presence at Missing was an accident of history.†
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But there were some advantages to Eritrea being part of Ethiopia: the probationer won a scholarship to the country's only nursing school in Addis Ababa, at Missing Hospital, the first young person from Eritrea to be so rewarded.†
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Yet it wasn't fate that stymied the probationer when she came to her clinical years, and it wasn't her clumsiness with the Amharic language, or with English, since she soon overcame these obstacles and became fluent.†
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But what she couldn't do, and it annoyed her to see how effortlessly her fellow probationers could, was develop the one skill Matron said she lacked: Sound Nursing Sense.†
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The probationer had at least gone to sea—she was sure of that.†
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"Sister?" she called softly, and when my mother moaned, the probationer took that to mean she was awake.†
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She waited for a response, and when my mother didn't volunteer one, the probationer imagined that my mother might be annoyed with her.†
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Only the probationer, who was mortified that she had failed that morning to recognize this crisis when she visited Sister Mary Joseph Praise, didn't stop to wonder how Sister Mary Joseph Praise got pregnant.†
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In it Sister Mary Joseph Praise had been a budding novitiate and probationer; perhaps they'd even walked past each other.†
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Wasn't this what she herself preached to her probationers?†
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The probationer shrieked.†
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The probationer, her face flushed and her pockmarks shining like sunken nailheads, added, "Amen."†
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The probationer's heart hammered against her breast like a moth in a lamp.†
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"And you," Hema said, snapping her fingers at the probationer, "get your hands out of your pockets."†
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The probationer recorded in the chart the arrival of Dr. Hemlatha.†
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The probationer kept her eyes focused on the chart, terrified at the idea of giving blood and not daring to look up.†
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The probationer drew a line through her "C-section indicated" entry, sensing that it reflected badly on Matron.†
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The probationer ran over to help.†
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She handed it to the gowned and gloved probationer who stood nearby.†
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As she toiled in the now deflated cavity of the belly, Hemlatha remembered that when she'd handed over the second baby to the probationer, she had been surprised to find the probationer still standing there, holding the first, a blank look on her face.†
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As she toiled in the now deflated cavity of the belly, Hemlatha remembered that when she'd handed over the second baby to the probationer, she had been surprised to find the probationer still standing there, holding the first, a blank look on her face.†
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But, to return to the legend: The probationer unloaded the two stillborns into a copper basin used to hold placentas.†
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In the chart the probationer used the words "white asphyxia" to describe their deathly pallor.†
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But she'd also assumed that Matron or the probationer or both would be reviving the infants while she worked on the mother, though she recalled seeing Matron seated and immobile.†
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The probationer was mortified at the sound of a baby that had come alive right behind her back, confounding her most basic clinical assumptions.†
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Her glance let the probationer know she was a hopeless case.†
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THE PROBATIONER BROKE the ensuing silence.†
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Even the probationer began to show the first inkling of Sound Nursing Sense.†
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For the first time the probationer saw the children not as "fetuses" or "neonates" but instead as motherless children, like herself, children to be pitied.†
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Hema's exam revealed that the "baby" was a giant fibroid of the uterus and the FHSH nothing but a rattle in a probationer's brain.†
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The probationer had yet to deliver her message, and when she did, she failed to tell anyone how sick Sister was.†
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Ghosh made leisurely rounds with the ward nurse and the probationers.†
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He pointed out a sulfa rash to the newest probationers, removed ascitic fluid from the belly of a man with cirrhosis.†
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The only intimacy he'd ever had in India was with a young probationer by the name of Virgin Magdalene Kumar.†
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Let the probationers know that all nursing classes are canceled.†
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"We better start," he said to the probationer who was scrubbed, gowned, and gloved on the other side of the table, ready to assist him.†
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"And down the coil contracts and you will see, the parts arranged more as they ought to be," Ghosh said, and the probationer, who had no idea what he was talking about, said, "Yes, Dr. Ghosh."†
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That meant the nurses and probationers were starving.†
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(1) (probation)
a period of time when a person is being tested or watched to see if they meet certain expectations or follow rules
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In archaic literature, probation can be used to mean "proof" or "demonstration."

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