By the time students enter professional school in health care, they have developed their own distinctive ways of thinking, feeling, acting, and communicating and interacting with others. They have also had long previous experience with roles and role-playing that helps set the stage for their understanding of what is required in their future roles as doctor, nurse, clinical psychologist, or social worker. These assets need to be respected and built upon to yield the clinical understanding and skills for addressing the myriad challenges and problems that arise in daily clinical practice, including those with an ethical component.