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).
Many bartenders beg to differ with the legendary cinematic request by James Bond that his medium dry Martini be shaken, not stirred.. Putting Hollywood aside, the difference between shaking and stirring a cocktail largely comes down to personal preference.