Sources of medical expertise

In some cultural traditions physicians discuss diagnoses and treatment with family members rather than with the patient. A US physician offers a patient from such a culture the choice of receiving information directly, without having first asked family members' permission to do so. Was the physician's action ethical?
Yes
No

Is it ethical for bioethicists to be paid by drug companies for their consulting services.
Yes
No

When presented with an ethical dilemma in medicine, my first reaction is to:
Examine my own values.
Frame the dilemma in terms of ethical principles.
Contemplate what someone I admire would do.
Seek the help of a professional.