March 12, 2019
Step off the gas
Take it slow
In a rush
You’ll nowhere go
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“Sometimes slowing down is the best way to speed up. How often have you rushed to finish a task, only to find out there was something else you needed to add on later? 😊🚗”
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