On Jan 4, 2012, Argentine President Cristina Kirchner underwent a total thyroid gland removal for papillary thyroid cancer. On Jan 7, 2012, it was announced that she never had thyroid cancer in the first place! See news report . Why did this happen? And it does happen unfortunately to not only President of a nation, but to ordinary citizens. Without benefit of having access to her medical records, I suspect her medical course went something like this which is what happens in the vast m…