I've noticed this dismissive attitude as well, and I'm a generally healthy adult who goes to the GP very rarely.
People go to the doctor because they don't know what's going on with their body and they are worried. They don't know that it's a minor ailment until an expert tells them. I hate this trend for shaming people just for being worried (which of course can be a sign of a mental health condition in itself).
I think the difficulty here is that doctors do have to deal with hugely ignorant people on a daily basis. The fact that many people apparently haven't grasped that antibiotics don't do anything for viral infections is testament to this. (Seriously - there was recently a national NHS ad campaign about this).
People go to the doctor because they don't know what's going on with their body and they are worried. They don't know that it's a minor ailment until an expert tells them. I hate this trend for shaming people just for being worried (which of course can be a sign of a mental health condition in itself).
I think the difficulty here is that doctors do have to deal with hugely ignorant people on a daily basis. The fact that many people apparently haven't grasped that antibiotics don't do anything for viral infections is testament to this. (Seriously - there was recently a national NHS ad campaign about this).