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After meeting with the Dutch ministry representative, Wilbert Stolte, Fox gained a group of written concessions allowing patients and their doctors to decide what was needed for their care. ZVK no longer had authority to deny referrals, but paid the compensation according to their guidelines. They
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serves as an important example, according to scholar
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in which she lived. Hoping to flee the class, gender, and racial discrimination, she faced in CuraƧao, Fox moved to
Holland, only to be disillusioned because no one there even knew geographically where CuraƧao was, nor the culture of the island. Struggling with the choices of pursuing a romantic
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to protest the changes in health care provisions implemented by Dutch authorities. For eight days, she and her supporters protested and collected signatures.
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