Daily Inspiration Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A line like this works because it’s a tiny piece of social realism smuggled in as a joke: the kind of deadpan exaggeration that makes you laugh first, then notice what you’re complicit in. Marquez flips the stated purpose of medicine on its head. Injections don’t “feed” patients; they “feed” doctors. The verb choice turns healthcare into an ecosystem with its own appetites, where bodies become recurring revenue.

The intent isn’t anti-science so much as anti-credulity. In many Latin American contexts Marquez knew well, medical authority could feel both indispensable and extractive: a gatekept institution, unevenly distributed, sometimes staffed by saints, sometimes by hustlers. The injection becomes a symbol of modernity’s theatre - a dramatic, visible intervention that looks decisive, hurts just enough to feel “real,” and therefore sells. Pills can be dismissed as ordinary; injections carry the aura of expertise. The subtext is about performance: the patient pays for certainty, the practitioner provides a ritual.

It’s also a jab at how easily people confuse intensity with efficacy. “Best thing ever invented” is obviously comic hyperbole, but it exposes a serious mechanism: when trust is scarce and systems are opaque, spectacle fills the gap. Marquez’s cynicism lands because it targets incentives, not individual morality. He’s less interested in whether a doctor is good than in how a system can reward doing more to you rather than for you.