I’m a surgeon and a mom of 3. I chose not to delay having kids for my career, which meant making sacrifices.
Dr. Dhivya Srinivasa (not pictured) prioritizes doing homework with her kids over school pickup. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dr. Dhivya Srinivasa, a California-based breast reconstruction surgeon. B-17 verified her employment with documentation. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Some moms are at every PTA meeting, class party,…
BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you’re a healthy weight, is bogus. Here’s what to use instead.
Doctors use BMI to assess patients’ health, but a new report suggests that they shouldn’t. The previous version of this story was published in 2022, when B-17 spoke to Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford. It has been updated to reflect the findings of a new report. Chances are, a doctor has at one point measured your…
Inflation accelerated as expected in December
Inflation sped up in December as expected, marking the third consecutive month of acceleration. The consumer price index, an inflation measure, increased 2.9% over the year this past December. That matches the forecast increase and is above November’s year-over-year increase of 2.7%. While the 2.9% is the highest rate since July, it falls short of…
Worried you’re applying to a ‘ghost job’ that doesn’t really exist? Here are some ways to tell.
“Ghost jobs” are roles that employers appear to be actively hiring for, though they’re actually not. We’ve all heard of being ghosted in the hiring process: You apply for a job and go through a few rounds of interviews, only for a prospective employer to disappear in the end. But what about jobs that weren’t…
Bitcoin could fall 17% from current levels once this key support level is breached, Standard Chartered says
Crypto bulls are expecting President-Elect Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda to send bitcoin higher this year. But they might first have to stomach a sell-off. That would happen if the flagship token breaks below the $90,000 mark, and the risks of this are real, Standard Chartered cautioned in a Tuesday note. “We think that a clean…
Bond yields signal buy, but the entry point is choppy. Here’s what investors should watch for.
The bond market is stealing the spotlight as we turn the corner into a new year that rang in yields not seen since 2007. In October the yield only briefly tapped 5%. On Tuesday, the 10-year Treasury hovered around 4.79%, near the psychologically key level of 5%. The 30-year rallied even closer at 4.98%. The…
Amazon Web Services CEO explains the decision-making framework he uses for moving fast
AWS CEO Matt Garman talked in a recent podcast interview about how he makes decisions. Have you ever wondered how Amazon calculates risky decisions? Founder Jeff Bezos famously simplified the process by sorting decisions into two camps — one-way doors, and two-way doors. The concept, intended to help a big company categorize decisions and move…
Why BofA says it’s the software sector’s ‘time to shine’
Software stocks are about to have a breakout moment, according to Bank of America analysts. They say that while the sector is by no means cheap after rallying 59% in 2023 and 23% last year, further positive developments for the industry aren’t fully priced in yet. It’s software’s “time to shine” as “positive catalysts converge,”…
Trump says he’ll create an ‘external revenue service’ on Day One to help collect tariffs and revenue from other countries
President-elect Donald Trump said he’ll create an “external revenue service” on his first day in office. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will create a new agency to facilitate his tariff proposals on his first day in office. Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social that he would create an “external…
