Sick & Good Podcast
Dustin Mesick, RDN and Colin Goodwin, PsyD are cancer survivors inspired by their personal experiences and incorporated this into their individual career paths in nutritional services and clinical psychology, respectively. The original concept to offer a support group that focused on body and mind was shifted with the emergence of the pandemic and evolved into the virtual platform of a podcast. In choosing the name of the podcast, Sick & Good Podcast was chosen as a double entendre, incorporating the last names of the co-hosts and promoting the possibility of a dialectical nature in physical illness (sick) and overall wellness (good). The mission statement for the Sick & Good Podcast states the purpose is to have conversations with medical and other healthcare professionals related to the cancer field on broad topics ranging from diagnosis to treatment and the recovery process with the hope to provide education and levity to cancer patients, survivors and other interested listeners.
Sick & Good Podcast
Integrating Oncology and Primary Care with Samantha Siegel, MD
In this episode of Sick & Good, we meet with Dr. Samantha Siegel, an onco-primary care and survivorship physician at Kaiser Permanente, and a cancer survivor herself. As the Director of Cancer Survivorship at Kaiser San Francisco and cofounder of the PCP-ONC CARES program, Dr. Siegel is transforming how patients are supported from the moment of diagnosis through long-term survivorship.
Dr. Siegel shares her own cancer journey and how it has profoundly shaped her practice, blending her personal experience as a survivor with her role as a physician. We explore her passion for integrative oncology, the evolving field of onco-primary care, and the unique needs of adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors. She also reflects on the future of supportive cancer care and the treatments that give her hope.
Beyond her clinical work, Dr. Siegel is the host of Beyond the Clinic, AIM at Melanoma’s supportive cancer care podcast, where she continues her mission of redefining what it means to live well during and after cancer.