April 20, 2022
She asks
Why do you
Write?
I say
It is
Not a choice
It is
a Calling
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“How many of you can relate to this feeling when writing, or creating art? For me, when I’m inspired to write - it’s not a conscious choice, it’s something deeper, a feeling that I just Have to write it - it’s just not optional…🖊😊”
Jenelle Jindal writes poems the way a physician works toward a diagnosis: through close attention to what presents itself. Her work uses the compressed lyric to examine the craft of medicine, asking how we describe, teach, and measure what resists easy instrumentation in care. At its deepest, that attention becomes presence, a quality both poetry and medicine demand but cannot fully teach. She studied biological sciences and linguistics at Stanford before training in medicine and neurology at Yale and at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.
The Poet Doctor