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# Dr Amy Coopes:  hack-turned-quack, doctor, journalist, parent
- URL: https://katecarruthers.com/amy-coopes/
- Published: 2021-02-11T22:15:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-03T13:31:29.000Z
- Author: Kate Carruthers
- Tags: feminism, ideas, podcast, STEM, featured, lesbian, parenthood, #wp, #Import 2026-10-03 23:30

Our guest this time is Dr [Amy Coopes](https://www.croakey.org/author/amycoopes/?ref=katecarruthers.com) \- journalist, writer and editor at Croakey News, a social journalism collective for health, and a junior doctor with the Victorian Rural Generalist Program.

We had a fascinating chat that ranged from journalism in a post-truth and post-consequence world to the life of a baby rural doctor, and the challenges of juggling children and a medical degree.

> She is a recently graduated medical student at the University of New South Wales and a John Flynn scholar, now . She left full-time journalism to pursue a career in medicine, after a decade in news reporting including five years as Australia correspondent for Agence France-Presse. Amy is an editor at Croakey and continues to freelance for publications including The BMJ, Eureka Street, Crikey and Fairfax.