why would a doctor fear being taped? Don't doctors tell you the truth?
Or-- are they afraid you will find out they don't know what they are talking about? eh?

Just when I had my son, the high risk OB specialist I went to had a woman with mild kidney disease who was pregnant and my doctor (who is just wonderful) gave her all the low down...risks to kidney functions in the future and all.

She decided to continue with the pregnancy (he advised against) and when she delivered she went into kidney failure. She sued him. And that was awful for him because he was really a good guy and good doctor (handled my crisis extremely well and I am here typing because of him )... so after that they recorded all consults with high risk patients. He was considering recording ALL patients and this was 26 yrs ago! A few years later, he left that practice and opened his own fertility clinic. And he remains very respected here to this day. (He himself was a Hodgkin's disease survivor). So this is an example of the patient turning on the doctor and claiming what was said, and not said... etc.

I think doctors who won't let you tape them, have something to hide.
With no tape...it becomes he said/ she said....and you know doctor's typically win in those situations because they have power.