As of September 2022, the Southeast was the Brazilian region with the highest number of active physicians registered in the country, with more than *** thousand practicing doctors. It was followed by the Northeast region, which had over *** thousand registered doctors. By that time, approximately *** thousand women were practicing medicine in the South American country.
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