While you are taking Coumadin, be sure to tell your doctor if you change your diet or eating pattern because this is likely to change your vitamin K intake. Your doctor can monitor your PT/INR test closely when your diet changes and can adjust your Coumadin as needed.
The experiments took place at Western Electric's factory at Hawthorne, a suburb of Chicago, in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
In 1845 Hawthorne again went to work as a customs surveyor, this time, like the narrator of The Scarlet Letter, at a post in Salem. In 1850, after having lost the job, he published The Scarlet Letter to enthusiastic, if not widespread, acclaim. His other major novels include The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and The Marble Faun (1860).