February 21, 2019
The story said
They don’t make it to the end
But you can change
Your story, friend
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“Stories of old help us understand who we are. But history doesn't have to repeat itself. What patterns / ways of thinking have you consciously changed in 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