December 17, 2014 Jamie S. Alley, Esq. Board Attorney West Virginia Board of Medicine 101 Dee Dr., Suite 103 Charleston, WV 25311 Dear Ms. Alley: According to the board's website, Sydn ee Smirl McElroy MD is currently licensed to pra ctice medicine in your state. This is a complaint against Dr. McElroy's license re: possible malpractice and unethical conduct. In order to properly evaluate my complaint, I'm requesting that the board: A. Thoroughly review the online version of an arti cle I published today on my blog,

B. Listen in its entirety to a November 25, 2014 Internet podcast hosted by Dr. McElroy entitled

Briefly, here's the basis of my complaint. According to

by Dave Lavender published January 20, 2014 by the Huntington (WV) Herald-Dispatch, each episode of Dr. McElroy's program is downloaded (and therefore likely listened to) by 35,000-40,000 listeners. To my knowledge, Dr. McElroy has no training in psychology or psychiatry and has never practiced in either field. Further, to my knowledge, she has never communicated with any of the members of my family. Nevertheless, through almost half of her 30-minute program, Dr. McElroy listed the names of me and other members of my family and falsely and maliciously portrayed us as “crazy” and as “weirdos” – those were her words. Further, as Dr. McElroy made clear to her many thousands of listeners, in preparation for her program, she intentionally searched for what she considered to be negative and denigrating information about members of my family for the sole purpose of circulating those false and malicious characterizations. Based on her credentials as a licensed board-certified family practice physician currently on faculty at Huntington's Marshall University, listeners may reasonably construe her conclusions to be legitimate medical diagnoses of mental illness. As part of my complaint, I'm requesting that members of the board be asked to consider their reactions if Dr. McElroy did the same to them and to members of

their