Dr Diana Mercado is a family physician in Texas, currently serving as clinic medical director at Jackson County Hospital District, and her passion for becoming a physician was born from her experience as the daughter of Mexican immigrant workers. She saw that many immigrants did not seek medical care, and wanted to become a physician so that minority patients would have a doctor who spoke their language and looked like them.
Another passion of Diana’s is helping physicians with ADHD. She was diagnosed as a medical student and during our interview we talk about the shame that sometimes accompanies such a diagnosis, especially in a high-intensity field like medicine, and how that impacted her ability to get treatment and delayed the realization that ADHD is a neutral situation that you can choose to see as something wonderful.
Because of that experience, Dr. Mercado has now gotten certified as a coach through the Life Coach School and serves Physicians with ADHD as a coach, helping them with time management, mind management, and seeing their superpowers.
Many physicians, about 5%, have ADHD, and many more of us have children, spouses, loved ones and patients with it, and understanding it better can go a long way to releasing the stigma and empowering those with ADHD to use their differences as an advantage.
You can contact Diana through her email, and find her website at www.adhd-lifecoach.com .
CITATION: Mammoliti M, Richards-Bentley C, Ly A, Nguyen M. Understanding attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in physicians: workplace implications and management strategies. Can J Physician Leadership 2021;7(4):160-165 https//doi.org/10.37964/cr24742
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Intro: Death Dance by Luftmensch
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