88 Forensic Laboratory Management: Applying Business Principles
and is extremely agonizing for all members of the sta. Although recovery is
possible, it is unbelievably dicult and takes months or years of enormous
eort by the entire organization. Even when rehabilitation is successful, the
lab sta will be constantly reminded that the headlines remain in the media
les, because they will be resurrected every time attention is again focused
on the lab—even for a positive story.
If there is any consolation to be found in the headlines, it is in the very
fact that the incidents are considered newsworthy. Although all would agree
that even one such case is one too many, these events are actually relatively
rare, suciently so that they merit ...