One day in the depths of the Jayawijaya jungle in Papua, a wild boar ran amok after being wounded by a hunter's arrow. The enraged animal furiously slammed into an old man who happened to be looking for edible tubers in the jungle. "The boar's tusks ripped at the old man's entire body," said Tigor Silaban. The victim's mouth, eyes, nose, and chest were bleeding profusely.

As a doctor, Tigor Silaban couldn't just stand around doing nothing. But