Go Figure
Focus on the Family's giving, the chaplain shortage, and medical ethics.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
March 21, 2007
$2.26
Individual donations and foundation funds given to Focus on the Family in 2005 to every $1 given to National Public Radio.
$1.01
Focus's public income to every $1 given to Paul Crouch's Trinity Broadcasting Network.
$0.78
Focus's public income to every $1 given to Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network.
$0.58
Focus's public income for every $1 given to Planned Parenthood.
Source: NonProfit Times
775
Chaplain positions in the Army National Guard.
310
Positions that are currently filled.
Source: Associated Press
63%
Physicians who say it is ethically permissible to explain religious or moral objections about a procedure to patients.
8%
Physicians who say there is no obligation to tell patients about procedures to which they morally object.
18%
Physicians who say there is no obligation to refer patients to a physician who does not object to the procedure.
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
47%
Terminal cancer patients who say their spiritual needs not supported met by a religious community.
72%
Terminal cancer patients who say their spiritual needs were not supported by the medical system.
Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology
Related Elsewhere:
See our earlier Go Figure postings from March 2007, February 2007, January 2007, December 2006, November 2006, October 2006, and earlier issues.
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