May 7, 2019
The arrows point
Directions say
But do you want
To go that way
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“Make sure you truly want to go wherever you're going, as opposed to following someone else's directions for your life. 🚗 😊”
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