Malpractice. The delivery of substandard care or services by a lawyer, doctor, dentist, accountant, or other professional. Generally, malpractice occurs when a professional fails to provide the quality of care that should reasonably be expected in the circumstances, with the result that a patient or client is harmed.
An UpToDate review on Nervous system Lyme disease (Halperin, 2011) states that [s]ince Lyme encephalomyelitis is so rare, MRI of the brain and spine is only rarely abnormal in Lyme disease. When present, encephalomyelitis is evident on MRI as areas of increased signal on T2 and FLAIR sequences.
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the United States, with around 300,000 cases per year, mainly in the Northeast. It causes flu-like symptoms, and, if left untreated, can result in serious chronic symptoms like arthritis, neurological problems, cardiac arrhythmia, and cognitive defects.