February 26, 2019
I must enjoy
Every note
The song of life
That I wrote
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“It’s easy to take things for granted in life or expect that things should be “better” in some way. The reality is: this is it - enjoy it while it lasts! What kinds of things do you enjoy more as you look back on life? 😊🎼 #bepresent #staypresent”
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