April 25, 2019
It’s often
when
a challenge
is near
When
suddenly
your
Strength
appears
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“How often have you found that once you started doing something, you had more #innerstrength than you thought? 💪😊”
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