[5][6][7] Vadeboncoeur was recruited by the Pierre-Boucher Hospital Center in Longueuil in 1990, where he became head of the department of emergency medicine.

[5][12] He has been a member of several working groups of health professionals, most recently of the Interdisciplinary Emergency Response Task Force in Montreal.

[18] The term "detoxification" is a case of misuse of language, used as a very effective marketing strategy.From 2010 to 2013, he hosted the television health information program Les docteurs on Radio-Canada.

[5][12] Vadeboncoeur has frequently acted as an expert medical consultant or collaborator for documentary series such as J'aurais donc dû, docteur[19] and Clinique roulante,[20] as well as for informational programs, including Une pilule, une petite granule[21] and RDI-Santé[22] and variety shows (L'après-midi porte conseil,[23] Medium large).

Since its founding in 2008, Vadeboncoeur has been a member of the group Médecins québécois pour le régime public de santé and its chairman since 2012.

[3]In 2016, Vadeboncoeur joined eight other Quebec personalities on a consultation tour on the future of Québec called Faut qu'on se parle.

[26][27] At the end of its tour, the collective summarized comments gathered in 163 assemblies and 19 open forums[28] in the book Ne renonçons à rien (Let's not give anything up).

[4] His godfather Michel Chartrand, the poet Gaston Miron and the publisher Pierre Péladeau were frequent visitors, as well as their next-door neighbor, the journalist Louis Martin.

[2][3] A young anti-smoking activist, he managed to convince his father to give up tobacco, but his attempts to separate René Lévesque from his cigarettes failed.

[4] The Vadeboncoeur family has spent part of the summer at a cottage at Lac Nominingue in the Laurentians, since Alain was four years old.

Discouraged by the teaching style at the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montreal, Alain interrupted his studies to travel, came back to complete the program and discovered a passion for hospital work.

[2][4] With his childhood friend Alexis Martin, Vadeboncoeur co-wrote and participated in the staging of the play Sacré Coeur (Sacred Heart), presented in 2008 by Espace libre in Montreal.