The Client

Granting that the professional-client relationship is mutual, there is also a code of conduct for clients. This code may not vary much from manners that the students have to assume in dealing with their teachers. The client, customer, patient or anybody who is seeking professional assistance from another person has to have complete faith and dedi­cation to that person. Doubts and disbeliefs have to be abandoned. Even if the professional tries his best to bring relief to the aggrieved party, the former will <ielay the process of advancement if he remains passive. If he is satisfied with the authenticity or bonafides of the man from whom he is to receive expertise, he should no longer entertain contradictions or confusions about the latter. He has to open out to his helper in all magnificence.

Duping the professional person from whom help is sought, by way of lying to him or hiding facts from him, or misrepresenting facts and incidents, can only slow down the process of success for the customer. The customer in this case is not just any human being to the professional man who has taken charge of him but he is a case, a sort of symbol, some matter, or an item that has to be turned this way and that, experimented with in every possible way to arrive at best results. Patience and faith are, there­fore, the twin virtues of the person who is seeking moral or other help elsewhere. Similarly, envy, jealousy, revenge are the worst offshoots of imbalance and no client, customer, patient, or student should cultivate such feelings. The teacher or the doctor may not have time for individual attention for each student or patient in the way it may be wished by the.student or patient. Only with understanding will the receiver have the chance to get the most and best out of the former. One who receives justice is equally blessed along with the giver and the customer in this case certainly is such a blessed one.