She asks many patients to rate their hunger and thirst while they are eating.

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With four full days dedicated to food and drink, expect tons of opportunities to satisfy your hunger and quench your thirst.

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For more than 90 days until they were picked up, they were blown about the Pacific, enduring the torments of thirst, hunger and hallucination, drinking their own urine and finally succumbing to cannibalism.

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