N the chaotic hours at Bali's Sanglah Hospital on October 12, 2002, Australian trainee doctor Bill McNeil made a terrible decision: he would use his scalpel to relieve the fatal fluid build-up in the limbs of the dozens of burns victims in front of him, then use it to kill himself.
Just nine hours earlier the 27-year-old surf-loving intern, who travelled with a stethoscope, was getting ready to meet friends at the Sari Club when the ground shook and the fire-filled mushroom cloud shot into the sky.
Two bombs had killed 202 people at the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar, including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesians.
"I grabbed my stethoscope, I guess as a sign of my role rather than anything else, then I just started going in toward the site," he said. "I got to a police roadblock and he said: 'You can't go in there', and I said: 'Look, I'm a doctor', and the guy just looked at me with pity and said: 'Go on.' After that it was just absolute carnage."
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