After reading the entire article, it really just sounds like this guy saw himself as some sort of never wrong Dr.House type of jackass who thought the world should bow down at his feet. An egotistical narcissist.
I don't think he screwed up people's lives on purpose. He just had his head shoved too far up his own ass to notice.
This narcissist lived for being in that hospital. He was making so much because he was seeing SEVENTY patients a day. Not because he was salaried as a ceo.
So even if he pocketed $100 a patient average, 286 days at work a year would earn him $2,000,000.