May 2, 2019
Small you are
Bright and round
On the vine
Magic — found
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“I'm constantly amazed by the #beauty in #nature - in many ways I find it far surpasses what we build as humans. What things have you been awe of as you look outside lately? 🍅 😊”
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