The inverse of this is people blowing off doctors then dying from very preventable illnesses, which I wager is orders of magnitude more common.
That's not to say that you should just believe doctors. If someone is telling you something isn't a big deal but you think it is, then get a second opinion.
It's especially common for women, particularly young women, to not be taken seriously. The implication is that young people are healthy, and women are over dramatic. Well... they're not always. I, for one, got cancer in my 20s.
The reason, I think, doctors are like this is because they want to err on the side of caution. They don't want to put people on medication unless they're 100% sure. They don't want to put people through anxiety-inducing tests for kicks. They don't want to cut people open unless it's the absolute last resort. And I can understand that mentality to a degree.
That's not to say that you should just believe doctors. If someone is telling you something isn't a big deal but you think it is, then get a second opinion.
It's especially common for women, particularly young women, to not be taken seriously. The implication is that young people are healthy, and women are over dramatic. Well... they're not always. I, for one, got cancer in my 20s.
The reason, I think, doctors are like this is because they want to err on the side of caution. They don't want to put people on medication unless they're 100% sure. They don't want to put people through anxiety-inducing tests for kicks. They don't want to cut people open unless it's the absolute last resort. And I can understand that mentality to a degree.