Doctors with ADHD benefit from ADHD strengths to become outstanding clinicians. getty

Across medicine, a quiet revolution is underway. More and more physicians (many of them leaders in their fields) are discovering in midlife that they have ADHD. For decades, we were told that ADHD was a childhood behavioral disorder marked by impulsivity, distraction, and academic problems. But that’s far from the whole story: ADHD benefits comes with strengths that medicine rarely talks about, strengths that drive individuals to become outstanding doctors.

Those of us in the ' lost generation ’ were high-performing women and professionals who were missed entirely by a diagnostic system built around disruptive, school-aged boys. We seemed so well-behaved, so hard-working, or so expertly masked t

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