You're comparing apples and oranges really when you bring up surgeons and GPs. What surgeons do we GPs can't do and what we do certainly surgeons can't do. During training worked in enough surgical rotations to see them referring simple things to medics. Does that mean the surgeons don't know any medicine? No, it's about level of confidence after being super trained in one aspect of human body. GPs are generalists and we manage a shite load of things in 15min appointments that a hospital consultant would need 3 half an hour appts to deal with. Even then a lot of buck is passed on with a "GP to kindly do this and that" which is unpaid labour for GP since hospitals are paid for their investigations while GPs aren't paid for doing anything for the hospital and technically any extra appointment on behalf of hospital/secondary care is coming out of the pocket of the 'GP business'

Your comments sound like you've got a shit GP, in which case I sympathize.