May 17, 2019
This is my room
This is my space
Just like my mind
Nothing out of place
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“Have you noticed that your mind becomes clearer when you are surrounded by a clean space? Our surroundings often influence us more than we realize consciously. #cleanmind 🧹 😊”
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