In my Scientific and Technical writing class we were asked to interview two professionals in our field of study and report on it.

1. To:Dr. Quinn- Anderson<br />From: Matthew Koziol<br />Subject:Interviews with professionals<br />Introduction<br />This memo presents information on the interviews of the two professionals in the field I wish to be in some day. The field of study that I am in is physical therapy and I interviewed Jim Rosko and Janet Ross. The information will be presented at the same time. I will present the information on Janet and follow it with the information on Jim. The topics of this memo read: professionals’ background, agency background, and comparison and summary impressions.<br />Professionals’ Background<br /> Janet attended school at Maryville University in St. Lois, Missouri where she played basketball. She has a bachelor’s degree in science and physical therapy, when she was in school she didn’t have to continue on and get her doctorate in physical therapy, only a bachelors degree was needed. To become licensed you have to pass the state and national licensing examinations. Janet started out doing acute care which is a hospital like setting that sees both in and out patients who need care and services that cannot be offered at home.<br /> She currently does home care, which provides services at home to disabled or recovering patients. Janet mainly treats geriatrics and they are usually 65 and older.<br />-3175283210Janet works for Advocate Health Services, she doesn’t have a workplace setting because it’s always changing. She travels to her patients and does therapy in the patient’s home. She spends about 45 minutes to an hour with her patients and she sees on average 6 patients a day. Because she is driving to her patients the company pays for her gas and she also gets a stipend for her cell phone.<br />Janet says that working home care has many responsibilities because you are totally independent. She has to do all the work and make the therapy plans for her patients. After every meeting with her patients she has to do documentation on the patients progress for the doctors.<br />Janet enjoys doing homecare because of the flexibility, she can make her own hours, this worked out because she can schedule around her family needs as well. She also loves to work with older people because not only does she get to help them feel better and make them more independent, they love to see her every session and they develop a good relationship.<br />Jim Rosko attended John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio where he did his undergrad in pre-physical therapy. He went to John Carroll to play football and he played offensive tackle. He then went on to grad school at the University of Illinois at Chicago. To become a licensed physical therapist he too had to pass the state and national licensing examination. His full title is Jim Rosko, PT, MS, CSCS. Jims experience is mainly seeing athletes in an outpatient facility.<br />Jim works at University Suburban Sports Medicine Center in Cleveland, Ohio. It is an outpatient clinic and he sees athletes. His sessions usually take about an hour and he sees anywhere from 12 to 20 patients a day. In his practice setting he has his office and then the therapy room which is equipped with training tables, treadmills, light free weights, therapy bands, and much more.<br />Jim’s responsibilities are to first evaluate the athlete to find out what’s wrong. He then develops a routine for the patient to follow and he is very strict about this, he says “I’ll be hard on them because if they want to get better they need to follow and keep up with the therapy.” After the session he will do paperwork and document the athletes progress for the next session.<br />Jim likes working with athletes because he too was an athlete. Jim suffered a knee injury in football and had to seek physical therapy, which was successful and got him back out on the field. He likes to know that he can help athletes get back into the game. I asked Jim, “Isn’t it hard to work with athletes, because most of them just want to get fixed right away and are stubborn because physical therapy takes a while?” He replied, “Well, I tell them the sooner you complete this the faster you will get out there, and I don’t put up with laziness.” Jim is a very strict physical therapist but I good one I should know because Jim has worked on me.<br />Agency Background<br />Janet works for Advocate Health Services and their mission and purpose is to get their patients more independent and help them get back to completing every day tasks. The history behind it is in January, 1995 two faith based organizations, Evangelical Health Systems Corporation and Lutheran General Health System, merged to create Advocate Health Services. It is based in Oak Brook, Illinois. <br />They serve the population with eight hospitals and two children hospitals and it also has the states largest privately held full-service home health care company. It is the largest integrated nonprofit health care delivery system in metropolitan Chicago. They provide services for in and out patients as well as home care patients. The government funds Advocate Health Services.<br />0662305Jim works for University Suburban Sports Medicine Center and their mission is to improve the health of the community by providing quality rehabilitation services. The center is located in South Euclid, Ohio. The history behind it is it’s a branch of the University Hospitals; it’s an outpatient clinic so it’s a non- hospital environment.<br />Jim says this clinic provides over 30 different medical specialties but his department, physical therapy, sees mainly athletes in high school. University Hospitals is a profit organization. The type of service that University Suburban Sports Medicine Center provides is an outpatient facility which provides the application of manual techniques, exercise and the use of modalities to promote an improvement or enhancement of one’s functional abilities. University Hospitals is funded by research grants, donations, and through profit.<br />Comparison and Summary Impressions<br />After completing the interviews it was clear to me that there were similarities and differences between the two professionals. To start off both of these professionals are similar because of how enthusiastic they were about there field, both of them glorified their job and were thrilled when I was interested in interviewing them. They don’t really have to many similarities in their practice setting besides how they both have to evaluate their patient and come up with a certain routine to help bring their patient to normal function. They also have to <br />document what they do after each session so they can refer to it, but also so the doctors can view it. <br /> However, there are many differences in their practice setting. Jim works in an outpatient clinic so his patients come to see him. On the other hand Janet works with home care so she travels to her patients and works in their home. Also the way they treat patients is extremely different because of the type of patients. Jim works with athletes so he knows they can be pushed and he can do more physical types of therapy and he mainly sees knee and shoulder injuries. Janet works with older patients so her therapy has to be at a calmer slower pace and she sees patients that have orthopedic related injuries, for example, broken hips. Also the goals of their patients are very different. Jim’s patients just want to get better so they can perform their sport again, however, Janet’s patients want to be able to get out of their house and perform every day functions by themselves, for example, getting out of bed.<br />I really enjoyed how eager both the professionals were when I asked to interview them. Both of them were excited when I asked if they wanted to be interviewed, this made the process less stressful for me. Going into these interviews I knew I wanted to be a physical therapist and I was pretty sure I wanted to focus on what Jim does and that is work with athletes. However, after talking to Janet and Jim I realized that maybe the athletic side isn’t for me. I started questioning it when I asked Janet how come she choose to work with geriatrics. She said, “Because with athletes they just want to be fixed right away, but with the older population it just makes their day to see you and it is real gratifying.” After interviewing Jim and being a patient of him I realized how true that statement is. So now I cant wait to look in to and experience all the different routes you can take with physical therapy. <br />I have learned that even though these two professionals work in two completely different settings both of them love what they do and they both got into this field for one reason and that is to help people. They want to get people back to living their normal every day lives. Through their therapy they help strengthen and bring back function to their patients, they truly do make a difference in peoples lives. <br />