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Video may help health care providers and patients learn about medical and health care advances. Inspired by our short Quick Take videos, Double Take videos provide a second, deeper look at medically important topics, examining their scientific, clinical, and social consequences. Videos are free to view on both NEJM.org and NEJM Group YouTube channel.

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Featured Videos

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A Swell Diagnosis

This Double Take video explores the differential diagnosis for a man with recurrent, severe, diffuse abdominal pain without obvious associated symptoms and reviews how the diagnosis evolves with new clinical findings.

11:56

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Led Astray

This Double Take video discusses the differential diagnosis for a man presenting with persistent abdominal pain, fatigue, and anorexia with weight loss and reviews how it evolves with new clinical findings.

13:16

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    A Diagnostic Sequence

    This video explores the differential diagnosis for acute-on-chronic pulmonary disease and highlights the importance of keeping a broad differential throughout a patient’s course of illness.

    14:46

  • Justice Disorder — Mental Health and Incarcerations

    This Double Take video explores the effect of incarceration on mental health and the need to invest in alternative programs and services for incarcerated people.

    8:44

  • Healing within Kinship

    This Double Take video shows how the Northern Navajo Medical Center is working to improve continuity of care to build patients’ trust and better address their complex medical and social needs.

    10:01

  • Overview of Heat-Related Illnesses

    This Double Take video reviews the risk factors for acute heat-related illnesses, along with clinical features, complications, and management, and discusses preventive guidelines and measures.

    12:17

  • Depression — Screening and Treating Depression in Adolescents

    This final episode of the four-part Double Take video miniseries on depression reviews the prevalence of depression among adolescents as well as available screening tools and therapies for this patient population.

    13:58

  • Depression — Advanced Treatments for Treatment-Resistant Depression

    This third episode of the four-part Double Take video miniseries on depression provides a primer for primary care providers on available and emerging therapies for treatment-resistant depression.

    13:28

  • Depression — Treatment Options and Managing Depression in Primary Care

    This second episode of the four-part Double Take video miniseries on depression delivers a primer on first- and second-line treatments for depression.

    11:13

  • Depression — Understanding, Identifying, and Diagnosing

    This first episode of the four-part Double Take video miniseries on depression empowers the primary care physician to screen for, diagnose, and address suicidality.

    9:32

  • What Is Rheumatoid Arthritis?

    This Double Take video provides a review of the pathogenesis, clinical features, and diagnostic evaluation of rheumatoid arthritis as well as therapeutic approaches to the disease.

    15:00

  • Alzheimer’s Disease — Managing Stages of Dementia

    This Double Take video reviews the stages of Alzheimer’s disease as well as pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic management for each stage.

    15:31

  • A Road Less Traveled

    This Double Take video reviews the differential diagnosis for a woman presenting with progressively worsening pleuritic chest pain after recent travel and shows how it evolves as new clinical findings arise in the case.

    8:08

  • A Treacherous Course

    This Double Take video reviews the differential diagnosis for a man with acute nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever, and hemoptysis and reviews how the diagnosis evolves as new clinical findings are presented.

    9:41

  • Effective Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder — Finding Recovery and Staying Safe

    This Double Take video focuses on a health care provider and her son through his opioid addiction and recovery, providing an overview of medications, harm-reduction techniques, and overdose response.

    9:16

  • Treating Opioid Use Disorder in General Practice

    This Double Take video empowers primary care clinicians by providing a primer on how to care for patients with opioid use disorder.

    12:01

  • Health Care on the Edge — Refugee Medicine

    This Double Take video discusses the health care challenges and complex trauma that refugees experience and highlights the importance of taking a holistic approach toward their care.

    13:09

  • A Deficient Diagnosis

    This Double Take video reviews the differential diagnosis for a child refusing to bear weight on his right leg and discusses how it evolves as new clinical findings are presented in the case.

    7:17

  • Trauma-Informed Care in the Face of Firearm Violence

    This Double Take video discusses chronic exposure from community violence in terms of its effects on health, its root causes, and how medical providers can better support survivors of violence.

    11:38

  • Reducing Harm — Having Conversations about Firearm Storage

    This video discusses the importance of health care providers having conversations with patients and their families about firearm safety and storage and recommends ways and scenarios to broach the topic.

    14:20

  • Understanding Old and New Therapies for Diabetes

    This fourth episode of a four-part Double Take miniseries provides an overview of available drugs used to treat diabetes and key strategies for overcoming cost barriers to diabetes therapy.

    8:54

  • Type 2 Diabetes — Fostering Patient Engagement and Lifestyle Modifications

    This third episode of a four-part Double Take miniseries describes ways to partner with patients to engage in lifestyle modifications as a means of diabetes management.

    6:30

  • Type 2 Diabetes, after the Diagnosis

    This second episode of a four-part miniseries discusses personalizing type 2 diabetes interventions and education to the individual patient, as well as considering the impact of health inequities on diabetes management.

    8:42

  • Understanding and Preventing Type 2 Diabetes

    This first episode of a four-part Double Take miniseries discusses the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes, its complications, and the importance of screening and prevention.

    7:43

  • Toxidrome Recognition and Response

    This short, animated video provides an overview of how first responders use knowledge of toxidromes and mitigation techniques to deal with a fictional terrorist attack.

    5:58

  • Tickborne Diseases

    This video provides a clinical overview of the characteristics of ticks and the various tickborne infections commonly encountered across the United States.

    11:47

  • Hard to Swallow

    In this short video, the importance of broadening the differential diagnosis when clinical cases evolve atypically is illustrated through a case of a delayed diagnosis.

    8:10

  • Hunting for a Diagnosis

    This short video highlights the effects of climate change on health through an illustrative patient case.

    8:57

  • Malaria — Epidemiology, Treatment, and Prevention

    This documentary video discusses the epidemiology of malaria; strategies for prevention, including vector control and vaccines; and the pipeline of promising new drugs for the fight to eliminate malaria.

    15:48

  • When Weight Impacts Health

    This video discusses the current understanding of weight and treatments for weight loss and explores the experience of patients living with obesity.

    7:46

  • Weight and Health — Pathophysiology and Therapies

    This video discusses the pathophysiology of weight and explores surgical and medical options for treatment of obesity, including the new, effective antiobesity medications tirzepatide and semaglutide.

    13:16

  • Mask Wars

    This documentary video explores the controversies surrounding masks throughout the centuries leading up to the recent Covid-19 pandemic.

    12:27

  • A Good Catch

    In this documentary video, a neurosurgeon-in-training reflects on the profound lessons he learned from a country doctor in Prosperity, South Carolina, about patient connections as the foundation of good medical care.

    10:19

  • Climate, Pollution, and Children’s Health

    Focusing on the impact of air pollution and climate change on children’s health, this video discusses the important role physicians play in caring for their young patients.

    7:18

  • A Sense of Belonging

    In this documentary video, Anita Blanchard, a Black female physician, reflects on experiences in medical school that crystallized the importance of diversity and mentorship.

    5:45

  • Atrial Fibrillation — What Is It and How Is It Treated?

    In this video for patients and families, physicians discuss the history, diagnosis, and treatment of atrial fibrillation, with a specific focus on catheter ablation therapy.

    5:45

  • Atrial Fibrillation and Catheter Ablation

    Primary care providers play an important role in diagnosing, managing, and mitigating stroke risk in patients with AF. This video discusses AF management and explores catheter ablation, a new rhythm-control strategy.

    13:00

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