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.
10 Signs of Lyme Disease. 10 Signs of Lyme Disease. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by the bite of a deer tick that carries the bacterium Borrelia Burgdorferi (BB), a cousin to the spirochete bacterium responsible for syphilis. Infected ticks of the Ixodes genus, which thrive in green, forested areas, transmit the bacteria to humans causing a wide range of health problems.