February 17, 2019
A flood begins
With a single drip
So with your dreams
Just stick to it
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“So many examples in nature can guide us. What kinds of big things have you achieved by just doing a small amount of work on something consistently? 💦🌊”
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