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).
The main difference between all of your base liquors such as brandy, gin, rum whiskey etc. is what they are distilled from. Brandy is distilled from low quality wine then aged in oak casks to mellow it and give it flavor. Whiskey is distilled from grains and then aged in the same manner as brandy. Rum is distilled from sugar cane and can be drank young or after it has been aged. Gin is distilled from grains like whiskey but they add botanicals such as lemon peel, juniper and cassia to flavor it; gin is not generally aged.