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).
Definition: Distillation is the technique of heating a liquid to create vapor which is collected when cooled separate from the original liquid. Examples: Pure water can be separated from salt water through distillation. Salt water is boiled to create water steam, but the salt remains in the solution.