TORONTO - A Sault Ste. Marie, ON, doctor who lost his licence for having a menage a trois and sexually abusing another patient abandoned his bid to get his licence back, QMI Agency has learned.

Dr. Tony DeLuco had his licence revoked in 2005 for participating in a threesome with a patient and her gal pal and for sexual misconduct with another patient.

One patient described sex sessions at her home, in his exam room and a menage a trois in her friend's bedroom.

She testified the threesome occurred in the early spring of 2001 at the home of a female friend, who complained of lower abdominal pain.

"She acknowledged that this was a ruse . . . she knew that (the woman) was interested in Dr. DeLuco and she hoped they would have sex," the committee wrote in its decision.

DeLuco, now 64, admitted watching the two women engage in sexual acts.

DeLuco's guilt was also proven by recordings of six suggestive phone messages he left on the patient's answering machine.

He was seeking to have his licence reinstated after it was revoked. But he dropped the bid in April 2012, promising not to seek his licence in Ontario "or any other jurisdiction" after another patient made a complaint about alleged misconduct.