Aside from the GP comment calling the guy "kid", it doesn't seem especially condescending to me. I read it more like "Yeah, we've all been there. It's a sucky

Aside from the GP comment calling the guy "kid", it doesn't seem especially condescending to me. I read it more like "Yeah, we've all been there. It's a sucky lesson to learn, but in the end he's likely to be wiser (albeit more jaded) to these things."