March 16, 2019
Human you are not
But oh so wise
Ah to look at the world
With your eyes
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“How often have you noticed how quickly dogs forget the bad, and focus on the good? We can learn a lot from them 🐶 #dog #wisdom”
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