March 9, 2019
They said this
They said that
But what are you doing
To bridge the gap?
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“How often do you find yourself watching what happens in the world — as opposed to doing things to change it? Here’s to moving thoughts into action. Happy Saturday! 😊🌎”
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