March 3, 2019
I see your eyes
But don’t know you
Don’t know what
You’re going through
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“I am humbled often when I stop to speak with someone and find out what is going on in their lives beyond that moment. A death of a family member, surviving a car accident... If you can, take the time in this coming week to learn - people may not tell you unless you ask, and the very act of sharing is comforting. 🌷”
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