Although Patrick Sajak has lived a life mostly outside of the spotlight, save for the occasional baseball or hockey game alongside his dad, he attended medical school at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (which also happens to be his mother's alma mater). Just because he was staying out of the spotlight doesn't mean he wasn't busy. While in medical school, Sajak found his research niche in the school's Department of Orthopaedics, studying topics like patient satisfaction and physical function following orthopedic surgery, as well as a patient's use of opioids, as seen in the National Library of Medicine.
As of publication, 13 peer-reviewed manuscripts have been published with Patrick Sajak as an author from his time at the University of Maryland, meaning that he had some hand in the study design, conducting of the study itself, analyzing the results, and/or helping write the resulting paper.
