Before traveling, check the expiration dates on all your medications to avoid problems abroad.

Before your surgery, bring a list of all your medication and the dosages you take each day.

The medicational instructions on the label were revised after the safety review.

Public health researchers debate whether certain social problems are genuine illnesses or merely examples of medicalizations driven by pharmaceutical marketing.

The doctor prescribed a new medicant to relieve her chronic pain.

Before joining the service, the recruits had to complete their medicals and paperwork.

This trend medicalizes normal variations in mood and can lead to unnecessary treatments.

Some sociologists warn that medicalizing everyday sadness can turn normal emotions into disorders.

The community medicalized the normal experience of grief, which changed how people sought support.

The medicalization of normal aging has changed how society views growing older.