During the journey, doctors, psychiatrists and humanitarian officials will debate the trauma of war and the "art of living in peace," organizers said.

In recent years, doctors have debated the value of nitroglycerin and related nitrates in the treatment of heart attacks.

But the issues that the doctors debated remain highly relevant in modern neonatal intensive-care units.

As he lay as an orphan, the nurses and doctors had debated on what to do with him.

And doctors and governments alike are debating how to curb the excesses of drug promotion.

For instance, doctors have debated about how far it is necessary and safe to go in lowering a patient's blood pressure.

For years, doctors have debated whether people with moderately high blood pressure should be treated with medicine.

For years, doctors have debated whether to use drugs to treat people who are prediabetic, meaning their blood sugar is elevated, but not to the level considered diabetic.

For the next several days, doctors and nurses, family members and hospital officials would debate how and when to let the man die, as he wished.

His leg injuries were so bad that doctors at the hospital debated about amputating his right leg, only he wouldn't consent.