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Adults With ADHD Lose 3 Weeks Worth of Work Annually
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 And while he supports the idea of screening workers for ADHD, Goodman, who is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, worries that "identifying workers with ADHD raises the possibility for discrimination."
He also wondered whether people who are diagnosed with the condition, especially in the developing world, would have doctors available to help them.
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For more on ADHD and the workplace, visit the U.S. National Resource Center on ADHD.
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Last updated 5/28/2008
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SOURCES: Ron Kessler, PhD, professor, health care policy, Harvard Medical School, and director, WHO's World Mental Health Survey Consortium; David W. Goodman, M.D., assistant professor, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and director, Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Center, Baltimore; May 27, 2008, online edition, Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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