April 5, 2019
I console
Myself tonight
That I did it all
And did what’s right
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“After a tough day it's easy to be hard on yourself. But all you can do is — do the right thing and do all you can. You are just one person. 🌙 🙏 #doyourbest”
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