@Cookie1831 Ha!! Of course they're not. I have had experiences similar to @ElizabethLemon in terms of having severe episodic symptoms that 5 GPs in a row didn't take seriously until it all came to a head and I ended up in an ambulance... but several of my best friends are doctors and they are certainly good eggs, the very best! And they've explained that there is a problem in that GPs don't generally know whether the patient in front of them is one of the (majority, apparently?) patients who talk up their symptoms or not (and limited funds and time on the NHS etc etc). I am related to a hypochondriac and if the GP took her seriously every time she went in, she would be in ICU on a rolling basis...! But it's frustrating when you just know that something is very wrong but they think you must be exaggerating.
The dismissal of pregnant women seems to be an additional element to this though, ie it seems to be more common for pregnant women to be patted on the head and told to relax than the average patient. It's like the woman isn't having a child, she's becoming one 
My mother was also a young mum and was constantly patronised. Her obstetrician refused to tell her the gender as he didn't believe in women finding out before birth. When she attended at the hospital and told them she thought she was in labour, they told her she wasn't as she would be sure about it if she was. They left her in a waiting room for over an hour (the hospital wasn't even busy). When she didn't leave they eventually checked her and realised that she was in fact 7cm dilated... I was born 2 hours later!