Third Normal Form

In a recent forum message, Wolfman wrote:

"We have a large form based application. The form has several sections which the user fills in and they have a vast amount of information on each section, around 150 items of char, numbers and text. These sections are always read/written as a block.

If I have a table- FormSection2Physical which contains 150 columns which describe each of the questions on the form is this a violation of normalization in any way?

We also have a doctor invoice:

id, doctor_id, location_id, diagnosis1, diagnosis2, diagnosis3, patient_charge, amount, location_different (boolean)

Are there any issues here?"

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