I have news for you...it still IS...just now they pretty it up and shine it up a bit more give em all fancy names, and charge a fortune for them.
Any back table in an orthopedic operating room, resembles most average workshops!
I don't like hospitals and ORs. I avoid them like the plague. Luckily, or genetically, I've never really needed one except in '74, when I was robbed and shot, and then, it was only an overnight 'observation' stay. I didn't need the op. Trauma ctr surgeons were stunned/amazed/aghast at how lucky I was that night.