May 4, 2019
I don’t know why
Or where
Or how
All I know is
I must
Start now
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“The first step to starting something, is to #justdoit. Don't stress about the details, you can figure these out as you go. 🕰 😊”
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