The privilege process: How doctors get privileges at hospitals. Patients, naturally, want good, qualified doctors. But so do hospitals. That means that simply being a licensed physician does not guarantee doctors will be granted hospital privileges, area hospital executives say.
Stirring is a more gentle technique for mixing cocktails and is used to delicately combine the drinks with a perfect amount of dilution from the ice. Many gin and whiskey cocktails are stirred because shaking is said to bruise the spirit (though that is also up for debate).
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