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.