Table III.

Themes and categories forming the core category “Prompt and pragmatic benefit”.

Themes	Categories	Core category
Curing
Limiting	Benefit
Economizing
Conducting
The available time sets the limits	Time and space
Knowledge on a day-to-day basis		Prompt and pragmatic benefit
Information scrutiny and sorting out
Patients as the doctor's source of knowledge	Expert knowledge
Part of the art of medicine
Retaining and preserving knowledge
“Law of medical inertia”
Theory versus practice
Custom made