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Research, Medicine, and Rehabilitation Working Together: Remarks on Receiving the Migel Medal

As director of the National Eye Institute it seems particularly significant to me that I should have been selected as the corecipient of the 1976 Migel Medal of the American Foundation for the Blind. For to me, this award is symbolic of a unity of purpose among those dedicated to the welfare of the blind and those committed to the prevention and cure of blindness. All too often medicine and rehabilitation have viewed themselves as exclusive territories, each with separate interests and concerns. How many times have we heard it said that physicians care little about what happens to their patients once medical treatment can no longer help them? I recall just a few years ago hearing that great lady of rehabilitation-Mary Switzer-admonish ophthalmologists for what she believed was their indifference to patients who became permanently blind. Likewise, we have been told that those in the field of rehabilitation-not to mention the blind themselves-have little interest in efforts to improve medical care or in research to improve the prevention and treatment of visual disorders. There is, no doubt, some basis for such allegations, but I do not believe they reflect the views of the majority in either field. In any case, it is surely time to put such attitudes behind us. The welfare of the individual who is blind, or may become