May 3, 2019
Inch by inch
The steps I take
But over time
A journey makes
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“We hear about people achieving big things in the news...what doesn't make the news though are the small things that over time resulted in something big. #inchbyinch, #bitbybit, what you do makes a difference. 🌞🌷”
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