Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors by going to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店).Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially    1     they lack health insurance. Or they may stay away because they find it    2    (embarrass) to discuss their weight, smoking, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative     3     (experience) in the past. But    4    (play) doctor can also be a deadly game.

Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet    5    medical answers--- and most of them aren’t nearly sceptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet &American Life Project found that 72 percent of those    6    (survey) believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn’t look up “headache” and the chances of finding     7    (rely) and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain,    8     (be) only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous    9     (inform) exists on the Internet.

The problem is most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that’s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative ( 权威的)，so it’s hard to know if what you’re reading is     10    (reason) or not,” says Dr.Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) wasn’t fully accepted outside of China for centuries. There was once a Chinese man in the US who     1     (accuse) after he used a certain form of TCM treatment     2     (cure) his grandson’s disease.

In the last 10 years or so, however, TCM     3     (get) more popular all over the world. A report     4     (publish) on Dec. 6 says this style of healthcare, which includes different forms     5     herbal medicine and exercise, has spread to 183 countries and regions. For instance, in Lima, the capital of Peru, there are more than 50 Chinese medicine clinics, about 70 percent of     6     were set up by local doctors, TCM has become popular with the people of Peru.

    7     TCM has been widely accepted, it still faces challenges. For example, there is trouble in being able to prove     8     (exact) what certain drugs are made up of, as well as being able to keep the effects the same every time.

Some researchers have suggested TCM should be more exact and come together with Western Medicine. “    9     (bring) together Western Medicine and TCM, rather than being in     10     (compete), is where the potential for great effects lies.