April 8, 2019
Worked so hard
Now let it go
It’s now time
For all to know
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“It's tough sometimes to let things go, when you've put blood and sweat into them. But once you do - then they can take on an even more marvelous life of their own. ☁️🦅😊”
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