Even after formal retirement at age 65, he became a senior physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and then worked at HMS.
"His hobby was his work," said Ethel Raport Weinstein, his wife of 65 years.
She remembers when her husband rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night to operate on a homeless person.
"He was a compassionate and caring man," she said. "He didn't care about how much money patients had."
In addition to being compassionate and caring, Harrington said, Weinstein was "absolutely brilliant." Weinstein would ask the best questions during meetings, teach a class with no notes, and make the most accurate diagnoses of patients, Harrington said.
In one memorable case, Weinstein predicted that a critically ill patient with both liver and kidney failure would get better within a month, Harrington remembered. To the amazement of Dr. Harrington and other doctors, this diagnosis proved to be correct.
Weinstein was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on February 26, 1908. He paid his way through school playing the jazz violin.
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