Psychologists at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, who carried out the study, found that victims tended to take seven days off sick a year more than those who had not been bullied.
Current absenteeism rates show a startling 17 sick days a year, two-and-a-half times greater than the private sector figure.
So a pandemic that will make a lot of people sick over a long period of time is something to worry about.
But putting a sick business on a healthier strategic path while changing its culture "is much more difficult than most executives realize, " he cautions.
But a lot of activities, such as chaperoning school field trips, helping a sick child make a collage, reading to older people who have lost their eyesight or participating in an AIDS walk with friends, can be lots of fun.
Jerry Seinfeld performed twice, supposedly the second time as a replacement for someone who got sick just a few days before the event.
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Computers, which can cope with simple rule-based jobs, find it far harder to diagnose a sick patient or design a new aircraft.
The typical hero is no longer a brooding English aristocrat with a large estate who, on a chance visit to a sick aunt, meets a lovely, lonely, virginal 17-year-old, says Charis Calhoon of the Romance Writers.
"I went and had a pint of kombucha one time and I was like sick for a day, " he said.
According to an earlier ECJ ruling, workers who fall sick before a period of annual leave can also reschedule that leave period so that it does not clash with their sick leave.
When a sick woman brought the doctor a bag of cockroaches which she thought might have caused her illness, he was able to call the housing officer to have her flat fixed.
Patients in isolation rooms are more often than not sick from a multi drug resistant organism (MDRO).
This makes it hard for anyone with a sick child to quit and start a new firm.
The cause of death was not disclosed, but Berthold Albrecht had reportedly been sick for a while.
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But the cultural representative of the Paris mayor is angry - sick as a parrot in fact.
On the second of two trips to Congo, he fell sick with a tropical disease and died.
Bonny Jacobs, Jill Biden's mother, had been sick for a long time and was living in a hospice.
In early 2009, after Ms. Skipper had been sick for a year, she developed tightness in her chest.
Because nobody should go broke because they got sick in a country like the United States of America.
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Or simply giving, say, their Tamiflu to a sick neighbor or their Enbrel to a 59-year-old friend with arthritis.
But now everyone has known that Jobs is sick for a long time.
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Gary Sick, a professor at Columbia University's Middle East Institute, says he's surprised how quickly the rhetoric and actions have developed.
Health officials said diners at Copenhagen's Noma restaurant fell sick over a five-day period in February, suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea.
Dr Murray met Michael Jackson when the singer's daughter, Paris, was sick during a family trip to Las Vegas in 2006.
But stabilizing a sick patient is like putting out a house fire.
Saviour siblings are babies born because they are a tissue match for a sick older brother or sister with a genetic condition.
Gary Sick, a professor at Columbia University, thinks the process is bankrupt.
These days, Gary Sick is a professor of Middle East politics at Columbia University, and he continues to closely follow matters in Iran.
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