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Unimed operates as a physician-owned cooperative. This means doctors hold a dual role: they are both members of the cooperative and providers of healthcare services. While some staff, like auditors or on-call personnel, may be salaried employees, the majority are members. The compensation of member
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Sindicate (Sindicato dos Médicos de Santos), in Sao Paulo State, sought in cooperativism an alternative model of Management based on ethics, without aim of profit and with an emphasis on the social role of medicine.
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