Early Life
Berenberg was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts to immigrant parents. Growing up in Chelsea, Massachusetts, he proved a bright and studious young man and earned admission to Harvard University on scholarship. However, his father was reportedly too proud to allow his son to take the "hand-out" and Berenberg worked his own way through the Ivy League institution, commuting from home and cleaning dishes for extra income. He graduated from Harvard cum laude in 1936 and entered Boston University Medical School later that year, earning his M.D. in 1940. In 1941, Dr. Berenberg entered the pathology department of Children's Hospital in Boston as an intern. Thus began his extraordinary sixty year relationship with the hospital.
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