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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were ambulate, ambulette and mutable.

On Ruth’s last hospital stay, she spent eight hours waiting for an ambulette to take her home, until finally, at midnight, her daughter got a doctor to help lift Ruth into her car and drove her home.

Staff members direct them to paratransit, ambulette and taxi ride-hailing services.

“One day you’ll see an ambulette come in and haul someone out and they’ll never come back,” Mr. McArthur said.

He ended up in the street, where he was hit by an oncoming ambulette.