[ { \"lastName\": \"Seymour\", \"gender\": \"Female\", \"patientID\": 18134, \"firstName\": \"Stephanie\", \"age\": \"111Y\" }, { \"las
what is "contains this value"? do you mean, the two items have all the fields equal?
in this case you may serialize to string (json) each item and compare the new one (serialized also) to the set of existing.