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.
There are 3 stages of Lyme disease. 1  Stage 1 is called early localized Lyme disease. 2  The infection has not yet spread throughout the body. 3  Stage 2 is called early disseminated Lyme disease. 4  The bacteria have begun to spread throughout the body. 5  Stage 3 is called late disseminated Lyme disease.