No it's not doomed! It sounds like the neck is warped a little bit, which is fixed with an adjustment of the truss rod. If you don't have experience fixing truss rods, take it to a guitar shop if you can. They'll give the guitar a full work up and put new strings on it while they're at it, and it's usually not very expensive. An adjustment of the truss rod will help fix the action on the guitar (the distance between the strings and the neck), and it may also help the intonation. Intonation is a whole separate thing, and is usually done with tuning forks or a very good digital tuner. Again, if you take the guitar into a shop they will fix this for you if you want a full work up on the instrument.
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