Consider Sick Boy, the Lothario of the pack.
But now people can be considered sick based on measurements like high blood pressure without feeling ill at all.
The proliferation of antidepressants, he said, has made them a kind of cure-all, but has vastly multiplied their ill effects among people who only a decade ago might not have been considered sick enough to need them.
The city council had voted for a plan to create a shelter for refugees who are considered sick and vulnerable.
In 1970 a person who wanted to remain single their whole life was considered "sick" by 80percentt of the population.
According to his department's statistics, in 2014, 22.5percentt of the people jailed in Johnson County were considered sick enough that they were administered psychotropic drugs.
In 1948 homosexuals were considered sick and/or degenerate heterosexuals, and a gay community as we now know it did not yet exist.
Many African Americans would rather be considered sick than crazy, and as a result, they are more inclined to talk about physical symptoms like headaches or digestive problems without addressing underlying causes like sadness or despair.
b Individual was considered sick if (s)he had an illness for at least 3 months at the time of the survey.
These differences could be because the earlier study was conducted at the household level where the whole household was considered sick if any one member in the household reported being sick while we did the analysis at the individual level.
