August 24, 2019
The moment
Before the moment
No fanfare no lights
But just as
Important
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“How often do you focus on the moment that seemed to change everything? Give yourself #credit - what about everything else you did that led up to it? #preparation #hardwork 💪😊”
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