The phrase "a situation is problematic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a scenario that presents difficulties or challenges that need to be addressed.
Example: "The recent changes in policy have created a situation that is problematic for many employees."
Alternatives: "a situation is challenging" or "a situation is concerning."
This situation is problematic as a physician's social responsibility to protect public interest is not an option, but a fiduciary duty that is entrusted to each and every physician, individually and collectively.
The present situation is problematic because most breeder turkey flocks are kept in areas with endemic prevalence of aMPV [ 19].
Patient management in such situation is problematic as medical or radiation oncologists may be unsure if the current treatment is effective or not.
"I think the whole testing situation is problematic, in that it's unfamiliar, and often it is out of country and somebody who's not known in the service, all that sort of meta-cognitive understanding".
This situation is problematic because it has been demonstrated [ 6] that spin in the abstract conclusions of randomized controlled trial reports could bias the interpretation of the results by clinicians [ 29].
This can produce results that are difficult to reproduce, either simply as a result of repeated measurements providing different estimations of the truth or, potentially worse, results that are reproducible but still biased and therefore all incorrect; this situation is problematic because agreement between laboratories leads to further confidence that the wrong result is correct.
Determining the patient's wishes for an interpreter in this situation was problematic.
Nutter said that the funding situation was problematic, but added that "everyone has to do their part".
However, the situation was problematic also from the private sector's point of view.
