The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has organised a conference on “Los médicos de Macondo. La medicina en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez” (The Doctors from Macondo. Medicine in the work of Gabriel García Márquez), which will be given in the Assembly Hall of the University of Plasencia on Thursday 28th at 5pm by the Doctor of Medicine and Professor of the History of Medicine and Nursing from the University of Cádiz, Juan Valentín Fernández de la Gala.