M0nica
No wonder no one wants to be a GP, the Health system itself doesn't trust you to know what you are doing.
By the nature of their training, GPS are generalists, not specialists. The average GP sees patients with a myriad of different clinical presentations and reported symptoms every day. They are fallible, no doctor can recognise every condition. Patients are often not good at describing their symptoms either, they will not mention important issues, exaggerate, or underplay how they feel.
If the limited number of specialists at hospitals didn’t triage, the waste of their time seeing people who don’t have the condition they specialise in, which would prevent them seeing others who do, would be immense. The system is not by any means perfect, but it’s difficult to see a better alternative unless we go down the American route and test and scan everybody for everything possible - in which case the NHS would need much more funding.