Docs and Programmers: What the Heck are They Talking About?

Jacob's got a good post on how Docs and Technical people both fall into the same trap of speaking in their own tongue when communicating with others. Actually, a big part of my job at Medscape is to be the in the middle of that equation. I know enough about the business, the users and the technology to be a three-way translator.

I count myself as lucky when I run across a doc who can speak to me like a regular human, rather than a Medline search interface. And that's coming from someone who's around medical info all day long...(doesn't mean that I understand it all)