Look back

Jenelle Jindal, MD

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Precious moments
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April 27, 2020

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Precious moments

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Jenelle Jindal, MD

“Now in these days of #covid19 and sheltering in place, we have newfound time to reflect and look back on our lives. I encourage you to look through old photos from at least 5 years ago: the memories that flood back will even be more precious during these unprecedented times of #coronavirus. As to this cassette tape? I found it rummaging around in old things - I had made this back in good old 1999 but sadly didn't seem to play on my old Walkman! 😊 📼”

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.

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Jindal’s words · “Look back” · Original published April 27, 2020

Look back

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Precious moments

I came to find

Jenelle Jindal, MD

This reading keeps every word as Jenelle Jindal wrote it. The original is at poetdoctor.com/poems/look-back-hit-rewind/.

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