December 15, 2021
I look up
And Olives see
So many of them
In the tree
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“We gain efficiency of scale to buy produce in the grocery store — but also lose something — the feeling of being connected to what we are eating. On that note I’m always amazed to see actual food growing on trees and have been trying in more recent years to have some plants with fruit and vegetables to tend at home! 🍎”
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