An Italian doctor known by the nickname 'Dr. Magic Flute' has resigned after he was caught half-naked in a hotel room with a female 'patient' offering to cure her illness by having sex with her.
Dr. Giovanni Miniello, 60, a gynaecologist in the southern city of Bari, was the target of an undercover TV investigation and told an actress who was posing as a patient that she had human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cancer, despite a negative smear test.
Miniello told the female 'patient' that he could give her immunity for the virus as he was vaccinated and offered to have sex with her.
The Italian doctor was uncovered as a fraud by the investigative news programme 'Le Lene' after a 33-year-old woman complained that he was offering to cure his patients with sex.
Dr. Giovanni Miniello, 60, a gynaecologist in the southern city of Bari, has resigned after he was caught half-naked in a hotel room with an actress posing as a patient
Dr. Giovanni Miniello
The woman, identified as Anna Maria, said she had consulted Miniello about being unable to get pregnant, and he told the woman she had signs of HPV, despite a negative Pap smear test.
'I have saved many women from cancer. All those I have had contact with were negative afterwards,' he reportedly told her.
But Anna Maria decided to contact Italian newspaper La Repubblica, alleging that Miniello had touched her breasts inappropriately and told her he liked women with small breasts.
When she contacted him for the results of the test, she said she was shocked when he proposed having sex with her to cure her.
The woman then reached out to the investigative news program 'Le lene,' which hired an actress to portray a patient.
Minello told her that she had 'white spots' on her cervix, which
