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When Germán Ayon was 7 years old, he was already challenging doctors.
His grandmother, Paula Casillas, noticed something was wrong with her pacemaker. Her doctor, however, didn’t immediately recognize how badly it troubled her. The young boy, who translated his grandmother’s Spanish to English, refused to let the issue go until doctors took another look. They discovered his grandmother was right. She needed surgery…