September 27, 2019
There is only - One of you
What are the things
Only you can do?
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“Oops, here is the post I was planning for 9/26! I'm a little over an hour behind but better late than never, right? Stay tuned later today for another poem dedicated to today... #beyourself π π”
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