March 20, 2019
She sees the future
Reads the signs —
Just halfway true
She’s colorblind
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“How often do we cast halos around other people trying to make them perfect? We are all human with imperfections... 🌸😊”
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