In Bordeaux, doctors take writing workshops at university to improve their empathy. Exercise of the day? Draw the portrait of a real or fictitious caregiver, in ten minutes.

“Even if you only had time to write three sentences, it doesn’t matter,” tries to reassure Isabelle Galichon, doctor in comparative literature and researcher at the Institute of Integrative and Complementary Medicine. ‘I left for the stars to go nowhere…’ annoys one of the participants on the sidelines.