The physician
Edward Ratush, MD
Board-certified psychiatrist. Board-certified in addiction medicine. Two decades of practice built on one conviction: medication decisions should rest on evidence about the patient in front of you, not on the convenience of the visit schedule.
Dr. Ratush has spent his career in the places where medication management is hardest and the stakes of getting it wrong are highest — psychiatric practice, addiction medicine, and the treatment of patients whose care had previously been managed by routine rather than by measurement. He co-founded a telehealth psychiatry company, serves as medical director of a residential treatment organization, and maintains a concierge practice in recovery medicine.
MedsWork applies that same discipline to pediatric ADHD — a field where extraordinary medications meet unextraordinary management. Stimulants are studied, effective, and safe when properly supervised. What they rarely get is proper supervision: dosing tuned to measured response, side effects managed instead of endured, and treatment plans that respect a family's time.
Why a psychiatrist for ADHD medication?
Most pediatric ADHD prescriptions are written by pediatricians — capable physicians working inside a visit model that gives them minutes, not method. A psychiatrist who works with these medications daily brings differential-diagnosis depth (what looks like ADHD but isn't), comfort across the full formulary including non-stimulants and combinations, and — in Dr. Ratush's case — an addiction specialist's fluency with the safeguards that responsible stimulant prescribing requires.
Full professional background: edwardratush.com