April 11, 2019
And there
it is
A little sprout
That braved
it and
ventured out
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“Update on the seeds I planted: the first sprout just poked its head out! When was the last time you had the experience of first seeing the effects your hard work? 🌿🌞 #spring #staypresent”
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