Peter Lederman in Second Bout With COVID-19

@bkeske, medical issues have a habit of getting twisted around even in the first person. Sometimes it is the doctors fault. They will frequently give a very shorthand explanation of what is going on and get miss understood. I usually do not get the full story until I get the notes from the hospital. Even then sometimes I remain confused. Hospital care has taken a dive since the recruitment of hospitalists. The job of a hospitalist is to make money for the corporation. In metropolitan areas primary care physicians got locked out of hospitals. The way they did it was in order to get inpatient privileges you had to have at least 20 inpatient cases a year. Very few of us have that many inpatient cases on a yearly basis. Many primary care physicians are happy with this as hospitals can be a PITA.
You make more money with less work staying in your office. The loser is as always the Patient. Medicine has become industrialized and impersonal. It's job is making money and not getting sued. Having been personally involved with "the best" hospitals in Boston on multiple occasions recently. I have had surgery 5 times in the last 2 years and each one was followed by complications, one a serious and iatrogenic osteomyelitis of my left clavicle which required 6 weeks of IV antibiotics and a bone graft from my right hip followed by an ilioinguinal neuropathy and a huge hematoma. I have fully recovered but am left with two steel plates and sixteen screws in my shoulder. 

"Hospital care has taken a dive since the recruitment of hospitalists."

"You make more money with less work staying in your office. The loser is as always the Patient."

How would the patient in the hospital benefit from the doctor who can see her/him once a day and who otherwise has to take care of a stream of patients coming to her/his office in a different location? How does such a doctor focus on the patient in the hospital?

Again, fingers crossed for Mr. Soundsmith. It is hard to find a person so universally liked and appreciated.

@rsf507

As of yesterday he was still in the hospital, and has been there for for a week now.

@mijostyn

The tech/builder/employee has given no detail about Peter’s condition, only that ‘it isn’t good’, and also, ‘he will be fine’. Again, I did not pry for detail, but just wanted to confirm the ‘reports’ out there, particularly from Michael Fremer. He didn’t seem aware that the information was ‘out there’ at all.

But, per all his accounts of working with Peter and at Soundsmith, he in intimately involved in the business overall, and Peter as well. That’s all. I’m not trying to give ‘first hand knowledge’ of what Peter’s condition is nor the details of it, but simply tried to confirm the general reports.

I guess this is all pure speculation, until the man himself informs us of his circumstances. He did take part in the thread highlighting the Covid-related issues that Soundsmith were contending with last Summer.
It'll be hugely reassuring if Peter recovers sufficiently to do the same this time around.