The most common professional consequences for second victims were: concerns about the legal consequences of an AE, the potential damage to their professional standing due to the incident, having to say sorry to patients and having to inform to managers (Table 5).
Many say they are afraid to speak out because they fear being ignored, treated as troublemakers or causing damage to their professional reputation.
"The dismissal of the unwarranted charges brought against Mr. Chakrapani cannot undo the damage to his professional reputation," said Michael Sommer, the lawyer who represented Mr. Chakrapani.
What, if anything, should happen to these lawyers — damage to their professional reputations, punishment by state bar associations, perhaps even prosecution at home or abroad — is now the subject of a lively debate in the legal world and beyond.
But meanwhile, on a front closer to home for me, the awesome discipline of Republican-leaning economists — their willingness to say anything, do any amount of damage to their professional reputations, for the cause, even when they have no personal hope of being rewarded with high office — remains in place.
For example, Tresorit is a natural fit for professional services companies like law firms, CPAs and healthcare organizations that require the highest level of security for client and internal files, risking serious fines and damage to their professional image and business in case of any breach of data".
In the following account, a nurse describes the damage to her professional identity by the practice's decision to oversight all nurses; in cases like this there was often a threat to the stability of practice staffing numbers as nurses left to undertake other work.
The whole thing is a mess and, at the heart of it, the damage to Allardyce's professional reputation is irretrievable.
The Air Force paid damages to a professional Santa Claus after noise from a low-flying fighter jet caused one of his reindeer, Rudolph, to die of shock, television reports said.
When you stop caring about your work, you are not performing at your best and may even become bitter - both traits are damaging to your professional reputation.
