COMEDIAN Hamish Blake may be one of Australia's most popular personalities - but apparently not with the country's GPs.
A light-hearted quip on his podcast recently saw him joke that being a general practitioner was the highest-paying job that he could do competently.
While doctors spend years at medical school, he suggested he'd be able to muddle through for at least one day by doing Google searches for treatments and referring serious cases on.
The statement prompted outrage across the medical community, which even escalated to a mention in the NSW Parliament dubbing the claim as "ridiculous".
Blake quickly responded to the controversy, apologising in another episode which was released late on Wed this week.
"We love to dig in on this show...but in this case I think it's a very, very easy choice to apologise because, obviously we love doctors and would love to see one again," he said.
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