The phrase "avoidable problems" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to issues or difficulties that could have been prevented or mitigated.
Example: "By implementing better communication strategies, we can reduce the number of avoidable problems in our projects."
Alternatives: "preventable issues" or "unnecessary complications".
There are other avoidable problems: my original application was "lost".
These can encompass minor but still avoidable problems, like rashes or diarrhea, and much more serious events like, well, death.
HealthGrades also computes a "patient safety" rating to reflect how well each hospital does in preventing avoidable problems following surgeries and other procedures.
Perhaps a "hot line"—of the sort that used to connect Washington and Moscow during the cold war would be a way to forestall such avoidable problems.
So on January 11 Judge Frost agreed to halt Mr. Lorraine's execution, arguing that Ohio "has unnecessarily and inexplicably created easily avoidable problems".
I think it had avoidable problems that helped lead to the eruption of criticism, a view vehemently disputed by Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times, and Michael Gordon, who wrote the piece.
"This is an avoidable problem.
Injuries are a part of the accepted risk, but fatigue is, or should be, an avoidable problem.
"However, the drivers have decided that, if similar problems should manifest themselves during the German GP, we shall immediately withdraw from the event, as this avoidable problem with the tyres endangers again the lives of drivers, marshals and fans".
"Let me remind New Yorkers," the mayor said, in urging them not to drink and drive, "it's an avoidable problem for yourself -- meaning you don't need the ticket, you don't need the car taken, you don't have to go to court and try to get it back".
A European in this situation might reflect sadly that aging and physical decay must be accepted as part of life, but an achy American might demand that his doctor fix what he sees as an avoidable problem by prescribing him opioids.
