May 27, 2019
We remember those
We hold so dear
And cannot be
With us here
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“My grandfather was a veteran in World War Two. Thinking of those who have lost loved ones in war. This #memorialday who do you remember? 🇺🇸”
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