Once considered over-diagnosed and treated, the former Surgeon General David Satcher's report concluded that actually fewer patients with ADHD receive medical treatment than the number of those patients who were estimated to be suffering from ADHD. Although adult ADHD is receiving much press these days, excellent clinicians have long noted that adults do not “outgrow” ADHD and that those adults with protective factors, such as high intelligence, can often compensate for their relative difficulties up to a certain point. Our goal is to properly diagnose this condition via thorough evaluation and then treat it effectively, as it is the one illness in psychiatry that is most amenable to current treatments available.