March 5, 2019
How much work
How many nights
It took for me to
See the light
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“Success may seem on the outside like it came overnight to others but the reality is much more “paddling like crazy” underneath for years. So don’t feel bad if you are in that stage. It will get better if you keep going. 💪😊”
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