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The Prescotts playlist

Prescotts.

Songs for the Prescott’s Med family: the scopes on Microscope Way, the pump crew and the monitor maniacs in Kansas City, the depot in Costa Mesa, anesthesia and vet anesthesia out of Louisville, and the sterilizer and washer teams in Ohio and upstate New York.

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Why these thirty?

Eight companies, one family, and every one of them gets its own corner of the radio: songs in three different genres, then one from the rock ’n’ roll years. Celtic folk and a Broadway number, pop-punk and G-funk, gospel and go-go, calypso and cumbia, a sea shanty, a polka and power metal. Each is written around what the company actually does, and every factual line is drawn from what it says about itself.

Curated by EZ Radio from our original songs. Best played in order; every song has two takes, each with its own film.

The line-up

  1. Prescott's Med

    Second Light

    A Celtic folk duet across an ocean: a Monument, Colorado bench tech brings a retired surgical microscope back to the light, and a scrub nurse in a British theatre puts her eye to the glass.

    Country · 2:32
  2. Prescott's Med

    Equipped for Better

    A value analysis meeting turns into a Broadway opening number: Surgery, Finance and Risk fire the questions, and a supply-chain director answers with a curtain-up roll call of the Prescott's Med family.

    EzBiz · 2:01
  3. Prescott's Med

    Every Minute Counts

    Six-forty a.m., first case of the day, and the scope light flickers out. A stadium-sized thank-you to the healthcare technology crews nobody sees, with Prescott's on the road beside them.

    Pop · 2:40
  4. Prescott's Med

    Be Equipped for Better (One More Time)

    A rhinestone-and-brass Vegas showstopper: the whole Prescott's Med family takes the stage one act at a time, then the spotlight swings round to the biomed techs who rarely get a bow.

    Soul · 2:33
  5. Adepto Medical

    Press One for No One

    A shout-along pop-punk anthem for anyone who has ever yelled “representative” at a phone robot.

    Rock · 2:01
  6. Adepto Medical

    Dust in the Closet

    Every hospital has that closet: surplus infusion pumps gathering dust while the budget runs dry.

    Soul · 2:12
  7. Adepto Medical

    Kansas City and Back

    A wisecracking infusion pump wakes up with a BROKEN sticky note on its face, boxes itself up for Kansas City and swings all the way home in this 1940s jump-blues road trip.

    Rock · 2:25
  8. PioBio

    Hum Through the Night

    On a quiet labor-and-delivery floor, a night nurse hums along with her monitors and blows a kiss to a cracked transducer before it ships off to Pioneer Biomedical's Kansas City bench.

    Soul · 3:28
  9. PioBio

    Keys to the Bench

    Retirement day at PioBio's Kansas City monitor shop: a long-serving bench tech hands his tool roll to the new hire, and the whole crew turns into a gospel choir.

    Soul · 1:59
  10. PioBio

    Monitor Maniacs

    It's fun-at-work day at a Kansas City monitor shop: foam darts fly across the break room and water balloons burst in the parking lot, but every box still goes out cleaned, serviced and ready.

    Beats · 2:00
  11. PioBio

    Keep 'Em Watchin' the Floor

    A sunny mid-60s go-go twister for the night shift: a bedside monitor naps at midnight, rides to the Kansas City “monitor maniacs” at PioBio, and comes home ready to watch the floor.

    EzBiz · 2:08
  12. Tenacore

    Swipe My Badge

    At 3 a.m. the supply room is locked and the monitor is down, so a night-shift biomed falls for the one warm glow left in the hallway: the badge-access parts machine that Tenacore restocks on a schedule.

    Country · 2:35
  13. Tenacore

    Wizards of Wires

    Two biomeds, one building and sticky notes on every door, until the Tenacore crew dances onto the floor, one to fix and one to check. A sunny Afrobeats salute to the wizards of wires, the backstage crew of healthcare.

    Pop · 2:16
  14. Tenacore

    Box It Up, Ship It In

    A raw, stomping blues-rock jam for every biomed who has found a dark monitor down the hall with a “Broken” sticky note on it.

    Rock · 2:33
  15. Heartland Medical

    At the Heart of Things

    Louisville, 1998: a few anesthesia techs strike out on their own, and more than twenty-five years on, Heartland Medical is still a service shop at heart.

    Rock · 2:25
  16. Heartland Medical

    Empty Room

    A brand-new surgery center is nothing but drywall dust and blue tape until the horns kick in.

    EzBiz · 3:19
  17. Heartland Medical

    Half a Million on the Shelf

    Five in the morning, frost on the glass, and the anesthesia machine won't pass its checkout.

    Country · 1:59
  18. Heartland Medical

    Sleep Tight, Sleep Machine

    A midnight lullaby from an anesthesia tech to the gas machine that puts the whole O-R to sleep, with a tip of the hat to Heartland Medical, the Louisville crew that has been looking after anesthesia machines since 1998.

    EzBiz · 3:18
  19. Vetland Medical

    No Worries

    Dental day is coming, the book is full of dogs and cats, and the vaporizer just went out of spec, so in this sunny Trinidad calypso a vet tech refuses to cancel the dentals and calls Vetland to fix it or swap it.

    EzBiz · 2:14
  20. Vetland Medical

    Spay Day

    It's spay-neuter day: the line wraps around the block, there are kittens in a box, and the vet crew keeps both tables going to a sunny accordion cumbia.

    EzBiz · 2:40
  21. Vetland Medical

    Easy Now, Big Heart

    Before dawn in Kentucky horse country, a large-animal vet walks a big bay mare down the barn aisle and talks her gently under in this quiet Western ballad about trust and steady hands.

    Country · 2:57
  22. Vetland Medical

    The Vaporizer Hula

    A sunny lap-steel sway for vet clinic teams: when a vaporizer drifts out of spec, Vetland fixes it or swaps in a calibrated, certified exchange.

    Pop · 2:29
  23. PM Medical

    Keep the Steam

    A stomping sea shanty from landlocked Ohio: one Navy vet's hunch in 1997 grew into Preventive Maintenance Medical, the Mount Vernon crew that keeps the sterilizers steaming.

    Country · 1:38
  24. PM Medical

    Shine Again

    A glitter-ball 90s piano-house anthem for the night shift nobody sees: after the last case, a PM Medical tech rolls in and makes a tired sterilizer chamber shine again.

    Beats · 3:18
  25. PM Medical

    Call Us After Hours

    It's half past five on a Friday, the sterilizer just threw a code and Monday's trays are stacked to the ceiling, so she leaves a message, and the phone rings back.

    EzBiz · 1:48
  26. PM Medical

    Who Keeps the Cleaners Clean

    A hand-clapping, 1960-style gospel quartet testimony for the sterile processing crew, built on one big question: who keeps the cleaners clean?

    Soul · 2:29
  27. Washer Solutions

    Old Machine, New Brain

    An old lab washer in a university basement watches them measure the doorway for its exit, until a Washer Solutions crew out of Victor, New York, gives it a glowing touch-screen brain and rebuilds it right where it stands.

    Beats · 2:46
  28. Washer Solutions

    Till It Ran

    A galloping power-metal salute to the crews of the Prescott's Med Sterilizer & Washer Division, Washer Solutions and PM Medical: one stubborn heat exchanger, twenty-plus hours in the steel, and nobody left till it ran.

    Rock · 3:30
  29. Washer Solutions

    I'll Be Your Partner

    It's midnight in sterile processing and the survey window is open, so the Washer Solutions crew does what any 1950s vocal group would: they sing up to her basement window in the snow.

    Ballads · 2:52
  30. Washer Solutions

    Somebody's Comin' (Victor, New York)

    A late-60s Memphis country-soul story song about the night the tunnel washer quit, the call to Washer Solutions out of Victor, New York, and the tech who crawled in with a flashlight and didn't leave till the racks rolled again.

    Country · 3:30

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