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Why You Should Listen:  In this episode, you will learn about groundbreaking work being done to move the needle in understanding the impact of Borreliosis. About My Guest: My guest for this episode is Dr. Alan MacDonald.  Alan B. MacDonald, MD is a hospital pathologist by trade, and his world is microscopic images.  He diagnoses disease daily based on the images from surgically removed tissues, blood smears, and microbiology specimens.  In his private research, which he does at night or on weekends, he interprets images from diseased tissues.  In hospital pathology, there are many texts which illustrate the image profiles of tumors and other medical diseases.  Some of the reference materials do not provide a “perfect” image match to an individual patient situation. New lessons, which come from patients which do not “match” the published image archive, are the subject of “case reports” which enrich and expand the knowledge contained in medical textbooks.  Many of the images of “spirochetes” in textbooks demons