I know what you mean. This is O/T and may be TMI, but I caught chicken pox as an adult, just 3 weeks after we decided to try for a baby. I knew there wasn't much chance that I was already pregnant, but I mentioned it to the GP anyway and he was completely unconcerned and said there was no health risk in pregnancy.
Fortunately I wasn't, but just over a month later I was.....and my son has never had chicken pox, so I presume he is awash with strong anti-bodies!
), DD1 had the chickenpox and the doctor didn't seem to think it mattered. It was a bit different in that it wasn't me with the chickenpox but it was still dangerous in case I caught shingles, but the doctor wasn't concerned in the slightest, I had to do my own research online to see what the risks were.
This is O/T too but when I was pregnant with my third baby, my middle daughter had slapped cheek. I went to the GP who said that he didn't believe it was a risk. I insisted he look it up and he found that it was a significant risk. If I had caught it, the advice is to terminate. I had to see if I was immune. I wasn't, so I had to just wait to see if I developed it. I didn't develop it, which was lucky because middle DD had slept with me every night while she was ill. Looks like we were both lucky.
but I do think a lot of doctors just make it up these days.
and I really hope we don't hear from you from Sunday onwards! 
Here here. I was petrified, waiting to see if I developed slapped cheek. I know that, in this case, there was little that the GP could have done, and I couldn't have avoided my other DD when she had it, but you expect the GP to at least be aware of the risks. It got me thinking with the OP, because how many people would unwittingly take their child on a plane with slapped cheek?
Just catching up here ~ sending you lots of
I think I missed my vocation in life 
Slapped cheek is very different to CP in pregnancy. Like I said earlier, if you have had CP as a child/adult and then get pregnant your baby will be fine - you have an immunity you pass through the blood - there is a slight risk baby could be born with CP if you catch v late in pregnancy but the risk is v v low. However, as Juliette pointed out slapped cheek can seriously damage a baby and can cause miscarriage - you would need to be tested for immunity (a lot of people will not be immune as it's not as common) as Juliette was. It's terrible that her GP did not know of the risk but I guess they don't know everything
Being the mother of a young child and also a baby I actually always research illnesses/stuff now myself before/after diagnosis as I don't always trust what I am told. Mainly because we've had the unfortunate situation of having both children in and out of hospital (most just outpatients but some inpatients) and I've come to realise medical opinion often contradicts itself!!!
On another note, (just in case someone reads the thread) you cannot catch shingles from CP, but CAN catch CP from shingles! Not sure why but that is a definite... And of course, shingles can come from an auto immune issue and so isn't 'caught' per se - it's normally in a person who is v stressed, run down, has a compromised immune system or something...
I only know all this because I've looked into it quite a few times with having young children myself
I think we put a lot of faith in health professionals but they are fallible - and only human after all.
and hope the spots fade away before tomorrow.
