Scientific progress has shaped the “medical order”, with the temptation to eliminate the “human order” from its logic. But the confrontation with the suffering body and to death keeps questioning the sick and those who tend them, in anguish and a quest for meaning. In this truth-bearing trial, everyone must endure the agony of a fight to allow the survival of a fraternity spirit. A fight with the violence of affects, the risk of denial, the temptation to cling to pure thinking, and the institutional violence which often derives from it. Confronted with the sick, medical teams are caught between the forbidden and the impossible, they have to reinvent the foundations of a genuine ethic, through the acceptance of another kind of listening and seeing.