Who is Dr. Rudy Graveline from Skin Tight and what is their importance?

Dr. Rudy Graveline is a very successful plastic surgeon in the Miami area. His practice, at the Whispering Palms Clinic, has four separate operating theaters and a staff of eight plastic surgeons who do most of the work. Graveline himself is notoriously inept as a surgeon, and is often saved from the results of his own incompetence by his more skilled staff.