February 25, 2019
One idea
All it takes
And then the path
Illuminates
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“The power of one: sometimes just one thing can be the difference between getting started and not. When have you seen this happen in your life? ππΌ β- About this picture: I took this photo on a run in the middle of the woods a few months ago. Even though it was a timed run, I stopped briefly because I was so awed at what I saw, and now I'm sharing it with you. It still inspires me to this day. ππ³”
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