I received a press release from MedHelp.com announcing a partnership with the American Academy of Ophthalmology. MedHelp runs an online community where users post questions and get free answers from doctors as well as other users (colour coded to tell them apart). They're affiliated with quite a few professional organizations and maintain forums on a variety of health topics. Now they've teamed up with eye specialists, that's great. But this is Omni Brain, a humour blog, and detached retinas just aren't funny.
When I browsed their other forums, I saw reasons to chuckle after all (at peoples' problems, awful of me, I know). The site answers many serious medical questions, but there's also the Sexuality forum. Threads include "can I get pregnant from a door handle" and "I have chest discomfort lately after sleeping over at my girlfriend's house" (for an unusual reason). It's earnestly cute, if a bit tragic. Great there's an expert available to help them.
