March 1, 2019
never seen a ’wich like thus
took one bite - utter bliss
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“How often do you truly enjoy your food and appreciate it in that moment? Often we are multitasking but slowing down can be so rewarding. This was a corned beef sandwich I had yesterday for lunch, and before I ate it I had to pause 😊🍔”
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