March 18, 2019
Grandma did not
Live in vain
I will work
In her name
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“Many of us may not face our own mortality until we develop a serious illness or a loved one dies. Facing that experience though can give you the strength to make the most of your life today. So too with my grandmother 🌸🌿 #seizetheday”
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