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April 23, 2019
Grow I must
No other way
Seek out
the sun
Each new
day
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“I found this incredible example of #persistence the other day - #againstallodds a sprout was growing in the smallest crevice between a wood floorboard and wall. How have you been persistent at achieving your goals? 🌱😊”
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