April 20, 2019
You hike and hike
Across my hand
Nothing stops you
From your plans
Jenelle Jindal, MD
“I was amazed to see a tiny caterpillar the other day. So small but yet step by step kept crawling his way on my hand - nothing could stop him! When was the last time you were motivated to keep going, despite odds against you? 🐛 😊 #persistence #patience #selfbelief #positivemindset #lifeisajourney”
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