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.
ILADS states that Lyme disease is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the nation. Lyme Disease is transmitted by the bite of a tick that is infected with the Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete. It often begins with a flu-like illness with fever, severe headache, sore throat and joint pain.