Most doctors in a recent survey said that annual physical examinations were effective with 1. ______ detecting illness in apparently healthy patients, even there is little scientific evidence 2. ______ to support the exams. The report found that physicians are largely unaware that 3. ______ current federal government guidelines did not recommend annual exams for healthy adults with symptoms. The study also suggested that in performing annual physicals many physicians 4. ______ routinely order screening tests that had not been proved useful for patients with no symptoms. 5. ______ Sixty-five percent of 783 physicians who completed a questionnaire maintained that 6. ______ an annual physical was necessary, and 55 percent believed that annual physicals for healthy adults were recommended by national organizations. The researchers found that even many a doctors who were aware of published guidelines continued to perform annual physicals, 7. ______ because patients wanted them, or because they believed the procedure gave them the chance 8. ______ to offer advice about preventive health measures. Among the physicians, those are younger, 9. ______ the women, the gynecologists and those in private practice were the most inclined ones to favor 10. _____ annual exams.