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A violent patient who assaulted his doctor and shouted racial abuse has been given an interim hospital order by a judge.Cameron McConney, 63, of Meldreth Road, Bilborough, was found to have attacked his GP at his surgery in Beechdale.A jury decided the defendant was behind the racially-aggravated assault by beating after a fitness to plead hearing at Nottingham Crown Court.The case was unlike a normal trial, where a jury would return a verdict of guilty or not guilty, because McConney has mental