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.
1 Lyme rash occurs at the site of the tick bite in 80% of people with early Lyme disease. 2  Incubation period from tick bite to rash is 3-30 days (usually 3-10 days).  Lyme disease rash is: - Round or oval, enlarges in size over days/weeks. - Red, sometimes warm.