In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, the President and CEO of University Health Network, Toronto, said that Michael Moore's film Sicko "exaggerated the performance of the Canadian health system — there is no doubt that too many patients still stay in our emergency departments waiting for admission to scarce hospital beds."
Documentary film director Michael Moore used these claims as a central meme in his film Sicko to argue that American citizens should receive better medical care.
On 26 July 2007, UK tabloid newspaper The Daily Star reported that it had discovered an online text story about British pop group Girls Aloud that it described as "a chilling story detailing each singer's gory death in scenes that could be straight out of a horror movie", characterizing its author as "a vile internet psycho" and "a cyber-sicko".
Sicko stated that if he was not drafted in the 2010 NFL Draft, he would refuse to sign with any team, so that he could finish his studies.