discussion 3 Defining Disease by the Numbers

Imagine you are employed by Merck, Sharp & Dohme to market Diuril in the mid-1960s. In at least 200 words discuss your plan for convincing doctors that they should prescribe Diuril to asymptomatic patients. In your response, you may consider some of the following questions: What are the benefits of Diuril over other antihypertensives? Given what we learned about the VA Trial and the Framingham Heart Study, what are the problems with hypertension and what benefits are there to treating an asymptomatic patient?