February 19, 2019
noise noise
too much each day
listen to yourself
the old fashioned way
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“We live in such a connected age where everything seems to be trying to catch our attention. How often do you take time and pay attention to yourself? 🌞”
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