March 15, 2019
hills and valleys
both you see
in life have their own
unique beauty
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“Ups and downs are like hills and valleys. Don’t despair when you’re down - think of it as Yosemite Valley ⛰🌞”
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