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The Craft of
Doctoring
We study the craft of doctoring through the poetry and intellectual tradition of physicians, building the language, archives, and inquiry needed for the age of AI.
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Medical Craft in Three Exhibits
A Laboratory for
Medical Humanities
These three pages are studies of the craft of medicine from different humanities angles — the form of a poem, the patterns across a corpus of physician-authored poetry, and the limitations of the official chart.
How arrangement becomes meaning
Visual poetry makes form visible. The exam room, the chart, and the discharge summary are forms too. This studio is a small laboratory for studying how arrangement becomes interpretation, in a poem and in an encounter.
Enter Visual Poetry Studio →What do physicians write about?
Digital humanities methods help us trace recurring images, formal habits, and ethical restraint across physician-authored poems. They show patterns without replacing the slow, attentive work of close reading.
Read across the corpus →How does form shape clinical observation?
The medical record holds facts and accountability. It does not hold moral residue and the fullness of the human condition. Whether parallel charts are a pedagogical tool or a practical technique is a question worth keeping open.
Examples of Parallel Charts →Special Collection
Creative Practice: The Jindal Collection
The Jindal Collection is an applied creative counterpart to our theory-focused work -- an evolving corpus of poems generated in, with, and for the practice of medicine and medical humanities.
Featured poem
Hello leaves
“Apostrophe turns a tree into a conversation partner. Gratitude at its most unguarded.”
Read the poem →Language, archives, and inquiry for the future of doctoring
Poet Doctor studies the craft of doctoring through poetry, scholarship, archives, and AI-era inquiry — making physician judgment more visible, more teachable, and more available for serious study.
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