I think this is a great analogy. Creating a game of telephone between the stakeholders and the people developing software is often going to impede communicatio

I think this is a great analogy. Creating a game of telephone between the stakeholders and the people developing software is often going to impede communication. The flip side of this is that a lot of technical people lack adequate soft skills to be able to do this requirements gathering well (probably the same can be said about a lot of doctors and what defines a "good" doctor).