May 16, 2019
Hello world
Says the flower
I am but small
But so much power
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“It's sometimes hard to see what #littlethings can do. But even this tiny flower brightened my day on a walk yesterday. 🌻😊”
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