Freida McFadden is the pen name of a practicing American physician who specializes in treating brain injury, and one of the best-selling psychological-thriller authors of her generation. She published under the pseudonym from her 2013 debut onward, keeping her identity hidden so her medical patients wouldn’t connect her to her fiction, and only revealed her real name publicly in April 2026. The name itself is a medical inside joke — “FREIDA” is the acronym for the American Medical Association’s...
The Devil Wears Scrubs
The Devil Wears Scrubs
Synopsis
Jane McGill is a brand-new doctor, and her first month of internship at County Hospital is going badly. She is sleep-deprived, perpetually on call, and assigned to Dr. Alyssa Morgan, a senior resident who runs her team on humiliation and appears to have decided Jane is the weakest link.
Between difficult patients, an on-call room she cannot escape, and a surgeon who is far too charming to be good for her, Jane spends the month wondering whether she will finish the year with her sanity intact.
Freida McFadden, herself a physician, wrote this short comedic novel long before her psychological thrillers. It is the first of two books following Jane McGill and reads as medical humour rather than suspense.
Vibe
Genres
Characters
Jane McGillProtagonist
A first-year medical intern at County Hospital.
Alyssa MorganAntagonist
Jane's senior resident, whose supervision style is closer to torment.
Places
Edition
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The Devil Wears ScrubsKindle, 2013
330 pages
Hollywood Upstairs Publishing
