April 21, 2022
Even in
The dead of night
Keep on going
With
all your might
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“In a world where everyone’s Instagram feeds look amazing and the finished product is exalted…the slow work of the everyday is still just as important. Someday, with persistence, your efforts will bear fruit 🍎”
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