The stories behind Nebraska - Prairie Signal

• Prairie Signal: Nebraska's Song for Its Long-Distance Biomedical Techs — Nebraska - Prairie Signal follows a biomedical technician keeping rural clinics connected across the plains.

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Morning finds the grain been sealed

Freight cars hum beyond the town

A thermos warms the pickup console while the first frost

settles down

From a clinic near the river to a room by county line

You carry more than boxes of lead, you carry ball of time

When the miles run long and the roads turn white

You answer every ringing light

Nebraska wide as a promise kept

Fields roll on where the red sun sets

You keep the far off doors in tune

With steady hands beneath the moon

From Omaha out to

Scottsbluff town No small clinic has to face it alone

A biomedical technician on the prairie line

Makes distant care arrive on time

You test the monitors before daylight

Trace each fault through cable and screen

Label every spare part twice over

Keep the workbenches clean

A nurse calls from a county westward

The

You talk her through the quiet steps

Till the numbers start to come

And every voice that joins the call

Makes one long table out of us all

Nebraska wide as a promise kept

Fields roll along where the red sun sets

You keep the far off doors in tune

With steady hands beneath the moon

From Lincoln out to

Chadron Town, no small clinic has to face it alone.

A biomedical technician on the prairie line makes

distant care arrive on time.

The rail keeps singing past the water tower.

A porch light burns beside the grain.

Somebody fixes what the storm is shaking.

Somebody brings the warmth again. no headline names

the hands that hold it no brass band marks the miles

but a thousand little acts of keeping on can

turn a hard day

Nebraska wide as a promise kept

Fields roll on where the red sun sets

You keep the far off doors in tune

With steady hands beneath the moon

From every clinic, every county town

A trusted signal travels up and down

That biomedical technician on the prairie line

Makes distant care arrive on time

Nebraska,

hear the freight wheels call.

Neighbors answering one and all.

Across the plains, the signal shines.

Reliable hands,

connected lines.