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Article: DR. WILLIAM BERENBERG, `GODFATHER' AT CHILDREN'S
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 16, 2005
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Dr. William Berenberg was a father figure to three generations of
doctors he trained at Children's Hospital in Boston.
"I think he considered the staff at the hospital his second
family," his son, Jeffrey of Kaneohe, Hawaii, said yesterday.
The hospital staff felt the same about Dr. Berenberg,
affectionately calling him "The Godfather."
Dr. Berenberg, 89, the retired director of the hospital's cerebral
palsy division, died Wednesday at Caritas Norwood Hospital. The cause
of death was a small bowel obstruction, according to his son, who is
also a physician.
William Berenberg's former students are scattered across the